Reducing the essence of a human being to a single sentence is impossible, but in taking care of patients, we doctors do it all the time
The one-liner attempts to summarize an individual and an illness into a single, typically run-on, sentence to expedite communication. It is a thesis statement for your diagnosis. Word choice and omission are critical. By the end of this thesis statement, your audience, in spite of …
Kicking off intern year means BBQs, team dinners, and block parties. Every invitation encourages us to bring our significant others, those people who define our existence outside of the hospital. And yet, hot dog and cold drink in hand, it seems we can’t help but alienate our non-medical partners by talking exclusively about the minutiae of our medical lives: our interesting patients, our frustrations, and our philosophies of medicine. They …
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