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Trauma
I don't care what surgery service you're on, even if it's not trauma - it's ALL trauma.Seriously? Surgery is trauma for everyone involved. Even an uncomplicated, routine case involves fairly...
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Happy Anniversary!
One year ago today, this happened.I tell people that she was like my unplanned pregnancy. I definitely did not think that one through, and if I had, I would have logically and very sensibly concluded...
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Sunday Six
Here's a Sunday Six list for you: the six people I love most in the world, and am undyingly, heart-burstingly grateful to have in my life, and alive and well on this chilly, gloomy Sunday. That's all...
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Home
This week's Sunday Six is brought to you by Going Home for the Holidays. Here are the first six things I have done in the 48 hours since I arrived in Colorado:1. I finished two books and started two...
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Noche Buena
Tuas di nait bifor Crismas güen ol tru di casanot ei critur güas esterin, ¡Caramba! ¿Qué pasa?Di niños güer ol esnogled dip in der camas,Algunos en naitis, otros en piyamas.Jual mamá worked leit en jer...
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Christmas Past
I found these shots sitting on my sister's old camera from three years ago. This was the winter I was living at home and applying to medical school. I was only about to interview at Emory and I had...
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Smartypants
She was six years old, tow-headed and blue-eyed, whip-smart and just as precocious as she could be. She had a raging, fluctuant abscess in her axilla about the size of an egg. It had been there,...
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Mini-Bucket
You know what the best thing about today is, I realized when I woke up this morning? I am only halfway through vacation! I still have one week left!! Since this seems to be becoming a theme on all...
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The Big Holiday Post, 2012
Yes!! It's time for my favorite post of the year! Side note: I have this theory that how you feel about the holidays is pretty much a direct reflection of how you feel about your family. Anyone else...
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Day One
The patient was not a young man, but his disabilities and medical problems far outstripped his chronological age. Chief among them was diabetes. Disadvantaged circumstances, hard living, some drug...
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Fun With Words
Just playing around tonight with this cool website I just came across. Here is the word cloud it came up with from this blog! Kinda cool (revealing? embarrassing?) the words that it pulled......
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The "D" Word
I have a vividly clear memory of a conversation with my sister-in-law that happened years ago. At the time, I don't think she was even my sister-in-law yet; I think she and my brother were dating or...
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Inauguration
The past couple of weekends, while rounding on patients, I got to periodically keep up with the various playoff games as they were happening because so many patients had the games on in their...
View ArticleOn Turning 30
It sucks and I'm freaking out about it.There, I said it. I really wish that I didn't feel that way, but I do. I really wish that I could be all, Yeah! 30 is the new, like, awesome something-or-other,...
View ArticleWell, This is Just About the Cutest Thing Ever
So far this week, I have had patients who have been 87, 88, and 95 (all women). The two older ones are just as sharp as tacks, and the two younger ones are just as sweet as they can be. :)...
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On My Birthday
A Letter to Baby Me, from 30 Year-Old MeDear Catharine Jane,A good friend said to me very recently, "if I only knew then what I know now..." We usually do not have the benefit of hindsight to help us...
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Santa Catalina
This morning, during a pause on the wards, I picked up my phone to scroll through my Instagram feed. And suddenly, in between food pictures and friends' babies and strangers' landscapes and other...
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Thoughts on a Thursday
This morning it was an immediately great day when I found the little iPod that I thought I'd lost. Okay, well, actually, it was first an immediately crappy day when my alarm went off, because it went...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I Had Done
I wish I had held his hand more.One week from finishing my third year of medical school, I just had my first patient die. Mr. Wallace* had stage IV adenocarcinoma of the lung. He was living...
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McD Spring Break
Lest you think I have dropped off the face of the earth or given up blogging, I'll just share about 100 pictures from this past week. :) (I am alive and well, just reallyreally busy with lots of...
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Make it Sweet
MessengerMy work is loving the world.Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird —equal seekers of sweetness.Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.Are...
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I Think I Can...
Less than a day to go... So ready to be done with this:Photo credit: my roommate LamyaPre-boards mani-pedis with friends today:And vacation to look forward to next week. Taking deep breaths....
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What's App?
When I got my iPhone, one of the things I was most excited about finally being able to do with a smart phone was use Instagram. For the year that I've had it now, I have come to love taking pictures...
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How to Vacation
What?! It has already been, like, almost a whole MONTH since I actually took this vacation and I still haven't really had time to blog about it. (OMG, time, slow down!!!)As soon as I finished taking...
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I'm not quite sure sure why I stopped writing, and I'm not quite sure why I decided to start again. Things got busy, but I mean, I've been in medical school since this blog began... things have never...
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