Medicine
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A resident described the family as misdirected anger. It was a phrase that let everyone move on quickly. But standing at that bedside, watching a family ask the same question for the fourth time, I kept thinking about the word misdirected. As if there were a more appropriate place to point their anguish.
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The tension between being approachable and maintaining authority is one medicine rarely prepares you for. A reflection on what happens when warmth is mistaken for leniency.
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What perseverance, consistency, and long term commitment can quietly achieve. A reflection on building a pulmonology department from the ground up.