Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Unforgettable
The Blank Slate of Delivery
Staying Alive
The Sound of Silence
Transitions
My First Patient
First Night Shift
Code Blue
We Are Not That Different, You and Me
Five Thousand Miles
Physician: Healer and Historian
The Journey That is Third Year
A Year of Firsts
Milk, Milk, Milk
Secret Languages
To Flames, and Those That Fan Them
History-Taking Tips from Grandma
Letter to Wanita Armstrong
Your Story Could Be Mine
Listen to Empower
Intake
Bert
Out of Silence, Into Medicine
Oui, Je peux!
Ubuntu
F is for Anatomy
Knowing
Time Within These Walls
You Have Not Arrived
You’ll Become A Fine Doctor
Feb 3, 2016
Always Remember: A Letter to Medical Students, Interns, Residents, Fellows, and Junior Faculty
Remember
Medicine: A Lifelong Journey
A Dawn in Fog
The Trainee’s Interface
Sun Salutations
Stress Dreams
Taking A Drink From the Fire Hydrant
Focus
I Am Your Doctor
Balance
In a Bubble of Happiness
Retained Guilt
Conflicted
Untitled
Finding Humanity
Foamy
What Medical School Has Taught Me
Broken
Fighting Flight
Snow Day
Needles and Insulin
Through the Dark
Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
Depth
Upwards and Onwards
Rigor Mortis
Shadow of Death
Death and the Intern Experience
Your Feet Were Cold As Ice
Nails
My Work of Breathing
Autopsy
The Red Line
Eyelashes
Preparing for Death
Code Switch
Dr. Wife to Mrs. Mom
Returning to Once Familiar Territory
(Un)twisted
Wretch: Lost, Found, and Lost Again
Notes to the Powers That Be
Time
The Doctor’s Doctor
Race-Based Medicine
Stay Alert, Stay Alive
Invisible Women
Three Days in the ICU
Conclusion
Acknowledgments