The blur that is ethics

This was a rather interesting article from CNN.com today. Although more likely to run across poems, anecdotes, and grammatical philosophizing as one strolls down Mulberry Street, sometimes the reader might encounter something a bit more complicated. In these cases, one should tread carefully, remembering that there are two sides of the street.
Take that to mean [...]

My first call: Rounds the next morning

Seeing the patients went smoothly and was easier than two days before when the patients were new to me. I notice how much more confident and comprehensive I felt on the patient’s I’d admitted. One of my first orders of business was to check on my patient with the dropping hematocrit. His next lab draw [...]

My first call: Calls in the night

Several interesting things occurred that night. Stress on the word night. My fourth patient came in around 2200, so of course it was nearing eleven o’clock when I began writing the admit orders. I got a page for cross-cover. My resident told me to write the orders, and he would check out this patient on [...]