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Ashira Klein is a pediatric resident.

Interns: You’re not alone, until you are

Ashira Klein, MD
Physician
October 9, 2019

During intern orientation a few months ago, they promised we would never be alone in the hospital. And they were right. Until they weren’t.

It’s hard to see colors in the dark — that’s why he looks blue. That’s strange; it almost seems like his chest is not moving. I must be overreacting. Everything is fine.

My right hand began flicking his foot.

Yell for help.

This baby is a healthy newborn.

Call a code.

Interns …

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Interns: You’re not alone, until you are

How the Parkland shooting changed the way I feel about medicine

Ashira Klein, MD
Education
June 3, 2018

February 14, 2018. It’s the “before.” My phone rang, and I stopped breathing as words poured straight from her heart about the most recent school shooting — Stoneman Douglas High School, where I had nervously walked the halls as a freshman and excitedly watched my sister cheer at football games in Parkland, a boring little town next to my equally boring hometown, as a teenager. Here, I protested the indignity …

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How the Parkland shooting changed the way I feel about medicine

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