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The Road to Residency
By Jason Faber It’s a scary thing when people look directly at you when someone is dying. While the face can lie about its emotions, the neck never can. The pulsating carotid bulge, the contraction of the sternocleidomastoid, cannot be calmed in a moment of fear. Many years ago, when I worked in the emergency room [...]

Notes from a med student
By Jacqueline Collins The summer after my first year of medical school went by in a blur: cardiology in San Francisco, global health in India and a quick family visit. As usual, I tried to cram too much into too little time and found myself with just four days to reflect and distill my experiences before [...]

Julia’s Nursing School Journal
By Julia Judge There are many ways to describe a top killer of all ages, but when it comes down to it … cancer stinks. Nurses and physicians on the Oncology/Hematology unit at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland would agree. Working as a Nurse Extern this summer taught me about the compassion, tolerance, patience [...]

The Emergency Room
Expect the unexpected on a daily basis By Carole A. Judge, for What2Be “Every day is not like an episode of the television show ER, but at our own peak, it can get like that.” - Jason Merritt, RN, nurse manager of ER at Miami Valley Hospital Expect the unexpected, nothing is routine, and no day is average. [...]

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