Your mind goes blank as 20 sets of eyes turn to look at you. You know this is not going to be pretty. You know it will only confirm what others suspect about you and what you sometimes believe about yourself …
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You can’t blame me for trying to forget you, but we both know I never will… I see you in the faces of strangers, in wilting flowers and rotting fruit and stale coffee…
I still remember vividly the day I brought you home. My heart was set on purple, but the woman at the store told me bluntly, “Honey, doctors only buy black…
As doctors, we spend years learning the biology of disease and how to treat it. But what we never learn is how to treat the environment…
I wanted to tell you that the night I stuck that needle in your belly I was probably more terrified than you were. I wanted to tell you that I saw myself in you…
The night he left, I laid in bed for hours trying to sleep. My mind raced and my heart ached. I couldn’t stand the silence, but there was no music I wanted to hear, no show I wanted to watch, no person I wanted to speak to. In search of a comforting sound, I reached for the stethoscope on my desk, placed the buds in my ears and the diaphragm on my own chest.
Between 2010 and 2012, she visited the Emergency Room 7 times – 3 for abdominal pain, 3 for headaches and once for a fall down the stairs. Each time a negative work-up followed by a swift discharge and a long drive home.
otherwise unremarkable 