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Bina Dara is an anesthesiologist.

Only when you are a patient do you experience the frailty of being one

Bina Dara, MD
Physician
January 17, 2019

We as physicians need a dose of our own medicine as a booster ever so often.

I went in for a simple procedure. A lumbar epidural steroid injection for pain which has recently become more than tolerable at times — nothing disabling. Nothing that stops my everyday life and living. I didn’t think much of the procedure at all because I am at the other end of operating room procedures on …

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Only when you are a patient do you experience the frailty of being one

The joys of coming to work 1 hour later

Bina Dara, MD
Physician
October 15, 2016

Coming in to work at 8 a.m. was indeed a luxury for me. As my fellow anesthesiologists would concur, our life begins at 7 a.m. on a daily basis. Some administrative duty made this possible for me one day. This was a first for me, and I felt compelled to put down my musings in writing.

Preparing for this morning treat, I had made sure to set my alarm for thirty …

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