A look at the life I’m leaving

At the end of the June, my pulmonary fellowship- which began as a pulmonary/critical care fellowship- is finishing. From here I’ll move to my first job as an attending, a mix of inpatient medicine and outpatient pulmonary, but not before one final weekend working in the ICU. It is quite fitting that things should end…

When the patient calls you “baby”

“Thanks baby, I mean doctor… Doctor baby….” he finished uncertainly. I washed my hands, gave him a quick nod, and walked out of the emergency department exam room with my smirking attending following behind me.  Speaking to a group of my female colleagues, it seems everyone has a story or two like this. Starting as…