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A resident physician graduates. What does she tell her clinic patients?

"I'm graduating and leaving our clinic in June." Over and over again, in the months leading up to this transition, I break this news to my primary-care patients. I have developed many meaningful relationships with patients over my past three…

“I’m graduating and leaving our clinic in June.”

Over and over again, in the months leading up to this transition, I break this news to my primary-care patients. I have developed many meaningful relationships with patients over my past three years of training as a family medicine resident in a large, urban health center in Manhattan.

But now it is time to leave and move on.

The fluorescent lights in an overly air-conditioned …

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A resident physician graduates. What does she tell her clinic patients?