Every time I look at the photos of the new interns in the hospital, I have to remind myself: You’re not going to see anyone you know anymore. Still I can’t help it. I’ll see someone who reminds me of someone else back from medical residency, those crazy naive years. […]

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We just got back from our trip to Michigan’s Adventure Park (it amuses me how their website almost looks like “misadventure.com”). It’s a newer, smaller, and cheaper version of Cedar Point in Ohio (the big Midwest park). I’m tired and burnt so less talk, more pictures.
 

The ladies in my life. Ladies […]

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She was a sweet girl in her twenties through with second opinions and here for the last resort. She’d failed all the meds. Specialists far away and nearby were advising her that it was time to take out her colon.
I knew her from months before. She was happy I was her hospital […]

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While putting my six-year old boy to sleep tonight …
SUN SU: “Can we see the Clone Wars tomorrow?”
ME: “We’ll go this weekend. I have to stay home tomorrow, Sun Su. I’m on call.”
SUN SU: “Is that when you bring the phone to bed?”
ME: “Yeah.”
SUN SU: “Why do […]

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Do you ever think about making your own graphic novel?
I do.
(I just don’t talk about it much because really, unless you’re published, no one cares. But if you want to tell me about your big aspirations in the comments, have at it — I’m interested.)
This is a pretty cool video of the process […]

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Did she die because of me?
This is the question that comes to a doctor’s mind when a patient unexpectedly expires. This is the question that comes to my mind when I get the morning page, “your patient Mrs. LOL died last night.”
Mrs. LOL was a little old lady. Before internet chat, “little […]

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