It took me a while to realize that some "difficult" patients are in the anger stage of anticipatory grief
Make no mistake: even beyond the life-or-death stakes of oncology, one may mourn the loss of the health they anticipated having
Doesn't excuse hostility but worth exploring
Stop watching conspiracy theories form in real time and start making a healthy dinner for yourself or your family.
Anything that you're gonna find out tonight will be more accurate and well-sourced tomorrow anyway.
It may appear like only a graze to Trump’s ear, but a ballistic injury that close to the head/brain isn’t trivial.
Besides the obvious inner and external ear injuries possible, the force of ballistics at that proximity make both skull fractures and head bleeds a very real risk.
Somewhere in Pennsylvania, there is a CT scanner and trauma / ER / neurosurgery / ENT / radiology team about to receive a very high profile and controversial patient. Godspeed to all. These are trying times for the country.
Once, a woman stopped me in the lobby. "I'm sorry, I can’t find the ICU.” I showed her where to go.
An hour later, I was called to the room—her husband was dying from cancer.
That was the day I decided to treat every person in the hospital as if it were their hardest day.