These recent weeks have been hard for me, and I suspect for a lot of other people as well. Not because I spent it in a board review course listening to lectures for 12 hours a day, and not because I drank enough coffee to practically burn a hole in my stomach, but because the world lost two amazing people all too soon.
I didn’t know either Kate Spade or Anthony …
Celebrity suicides make the irony of our era clear
“There’s no crying in baseball!”
Over the years, my fellow surgery residents and I heard these words shouted countless times by Dr. Norris, a cantankerous elderly surgeon with whom we had the dubious pleasure of working.
Dr. Norris was a former Navy ship surgeon. He didn’t operate much anymore, but he fondly remembered the “good old days” when trainees spent days on end in …
Doctors aren’t allowed to cry. But maybe they should be.
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