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The Patient Who Never Left the Practice
Some patients leave our consulting rooms. Some become part of our conscience. And some remain with us for a lifetime.
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Five Years Later
We assume we’re forgotten the moment we leave. We aren’t.
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Six Consulting Hours Left
I wish I had been kinder to myself, now.
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The Ghosts in the Room
I live at peace with these ghosts. They haunt me only with the beauty of compassion and lessons learnt.
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My Doctor Face
I swallowed my tears and put on my doctor face.
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Healers, Holders, Weavers
Will you be my doctor for dying?
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You Can Only Hold So Much
I make sure I enter the house before my kids.
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Also Human
I know what it's like to wear a blue hospital gown.
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My First
This is my first. It won't be my last.
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I Never Knew You
But I will never forget you
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Wattle Season
They had wattles on their coffin, because that was their favourite flower.
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Behind the Curtain
Cancer taught me the utmost importance of human connection in medicine.
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Her Father Thanked Me
Her father shook my hand, looked me in the eye, and thanked me.
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The Plate I Carried
I continued to live with it for two years, taking Panadol four times a day just to get some relief.
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The Most Dreaded Email
Behind the fake smile and the laugh, you are slowly being eaten by self-doubt.
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Becoming Whole Again
No exam, career pathway or professional title is worth a life.