Beatrice Preti, MD
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When I started my first full-time faculty position, one of my biggest worries was how I would manage working with the interdisciplinary team. I'd spent the last few months working as a locum at my most recent site of training,…
When I started my first full-time faculty position, one of my biggest worries was how I would manage working with the interdisciplinary team. I’d spent the last few months working as a locum at my most recent site of training, where I’d had years to develop rapport with consultants, nurses, allied health, and other staff. While that experience left me feeling confident in my abilities on the clinical side of …
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Impression management nearly burned me out
Physician voices
It was my first ICU call shift as a second-year resident, and my first time holding the code pager, which rested, quiet but not quite forgotten, in my scrub top pocket until around 10 p.m. The overhead speakers blared to…
It was my first ICU call shift as a second-year resident, and my first time holding the code pager, which rested, quiet but not quite forgotten, in my scrub top pocket until around 10 p.m.
The overhead speakers blared to life just as the pager began to beep. I ran to the cardiac ICU, forgetting my carefully organized ACLS cards on my call room desk. The patient was a middle-aged male …
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Knowing when to stop treatment is medicine’s quiet burden
Physician voices
"Do you know what it feels like, to know you could die at any moment?" His words linger in the air, heavy, long after the threat of violence has passed, long after our team has calmed him with words and…
“Do you know what it feels like, to know you could die at any moment?” His words linger in the air, heavy, long after the threat of violence has passed, long after our team has calmed him with words and soft gestures. It is not the first time a patient’s family member has swung at me, nor will it be the last. But it is the first time with a …
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What an active shooter taught me about being a doctor
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