Sarah Reck is an anesthesiologist.

The day you finish residency is just a normal day for everyone else

Physician
June 25, 2020

I was listening to a podcast the other day about this woman who kayaked the inner passage from Puget Sound to Juneau, Alaska. She was describing the end of her journey, the day she paddled into Juneau, and she noted that it was so anticlimactic. She paddled in, after 66 days and there was no one to celebrate the end of the journey with, the harbormaster was badgering her to …

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The day you finish residency is just a normal day for everyone else

If a doctor has a bad day, someone dies. Remember that.

Physician
September 4, 2019

For what seemed like an hour, I stood staring at the flat lines scrolling endlessly across my monitor in the OR. The once pulsatile waves, rendered useless and flat due to the absence of a beating heart. After a frenzied six hours of pouring blood into the patient while it poured back out of her just as fast, the surgeons drowning in blood in their attempt to sew the new …

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If a doctor has a bad day, someone dies. Remember that.