Primary care: I love the variety and the intimacy of the problems that are placed before me
They sit before me on the cold table, their expressions so often betraying shame or fear, dismay at their body’s failings, longing for reassurance or a cure. I understand the weight of this strange job that deals in sickness and health, life, and death. Mostly in fifteen-minute intervals.
Share Tweet Share An excerpt from Becoming Doctors 25 Years Later: Twenty five physicians sharing the journey from medical student to retirement . If I get out of bed now, I can squeeze in that ten-minute morning yoga routine on YouTube. But it feels so nice lying here, sunlight streaming in, sips of coffee warming my body and boosting my heart rate up a notch. If I did anything right in life, it was marrying a man who brings a tumbler of fresh coffee to my bedside every morning. I sip and enjoy the stillness. The boys must be busy on their devices. Another twenty minutes or so before I have t
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