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February 21 - February 21, 2025
Because they’re books. How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.
Because you definitely can’t be a doctor without a three-foot-tall skeleton in your room. Also, right now, Jack is the closest thing I’ve got to a boyfriend. If it gets any more serious, I may have to introduce him to my mother.
“Oh, my,” Dr. Westin says, running his finger down the list. He adds, “My, my, my.” Dr. Westin’s “My” Scale is renowned hospital-wide: One My: Patient is mildly ill, likely discharge in next day or two Two My’s: Moderate illness. Patient probably needs some sort of invasive testing. Three My’s: Severe illness. Possibly close to ICU level of care. Intubation is imminent. Four My’s: Call the coroner.
it came as a huge revelation to the world that you can’t perform competently while awake 35 hours in a row. But apparently, you can perform competently while awake 30 hours in a row.
edentulous, which means he has little to no teeth—where his teeth used to be, there are only gaping red holes. In medicine, we’ve got all sorts of fancy words for things that aren’t very pleasant to say in plain English: Emesis: Puke Epistaxis: Nosebleed Stool: Poop Dyschezia: Hurts to poop Hematochezia: Blood in poop
“Benadryl potentiates the effects of narcotics.
“Don’t take this the wrong way,” Kali says, “but you need to watch out for Connie. Seriously.” “What does that mean?” “Connie’s got some evil in her,” Kali says. “I mean, she’s a derm resident.” In medicine, there is something known as the ROAD specialties, which is an acronym for the four specialties that have the best reimbursement to hours ratio. Basically, great lifestyle with lots of money. ROAD stands for: Radiology Ophthalmology Anesthesiology Dermatology
students who want to end up as dermatologists will do anything to get there. Even kill for it. No, not really. They won’t kill. But anything short of that is probably fair game.
She’s cutthroat about being a slacker.” I start to laugh. “Kali, that’s kind of ridiculous.”
She’s got to be messing with me. Even on her second week, an intern should know that you need to look at a chest X-ray to diagnose pneumonia, right?
