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The Easiest Specialty to Do Poorly
I can't switch off that part of me that cares. And I don't actually want to.
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Be My Permanent GP, and Be With Me Until I Die
Sometimes, when we cannot cure, we can still comfort. When we cannot change the outcome, we can still walk beside someone.
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In Memory of Professor Jason Arday
I left the UK in 2014 for Australia and have never looked back.
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The Door I Didn’t Choose
I fell in love with it. I just never expected to.
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The Hard Part Was Never the Exam
The hard part was being a parent and a doctor inside the same breaking moment.
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One Breath, Two Sides
Despair and joy. Loss and new beginnings. It is a profession that asks us to carry both, often within the same morning.
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Lost and Alone, and Then Not
The fear stepped back. Competence stepped forward. It was the first time the two had ever changed places.
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Experiences in Inexperience
You do not have to experience someone's suffering to understand that it is real. You just have to be willing to listen.
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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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Reasons To Let Go
Cancer was an excuse to cry for himself, for his gone childhood, for how this world is unfair.
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Very Young to Have Seen So Much Death
Sometimes it pays to be reminded what an abnormal job we have.
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No New Clothes
He was protecting his own doctor from his own dying. Some patients don't end when they die.