Category Archives: Medicine

Let me have my bowel regimen

“Usually, twenty-five-year-olds don’t need help going number two,” my attending said to me. I wish you could hear the passive aggressiveness dripping from his voice. He was referring to the Miralax I had prescribed for my twenty-five-year-old patient. It is a relatively harmless, over-the-counter medicine that helps with constipation. This was passive-aggressive remark number forty-nine… Read More »

At a hospital near you

I told my sister not to go to medical school. She didn’t listen to me. The funny thing is, my mom told me not to go to medical school either. I didn’t listen to her. In our youth, we want to do good. Somewhere in medical training though, I’m afraid that do-good spark gets snuffed.… Read More »