tags: they can always hurt you more
2003
March
- 2003 Mar 19
- How to Deal with Evil (Intern Rule
Sorry. No current treatment available. Everything I say is only palliative.
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July
- 2003 Jul 4
- The Deep End (Year 227 of the Republic)
And not even anything to dream about.
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2008
April
- 2008 Apr 5
- a song in my head
As I finish off my residency, I realize that no matter how awful some of the remaining hours and the minutes can be, this experience is finite and bounded. My senior resident on my very first in-patient intern month took a sardonic aphorism from the seminal medical novel "The House of God" and added a hopeful corollary which has become something of an unspoken mantra. "They can always hurt you more, but they can't stop the clock."
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2010
April
- 2010 Apr 14
- life? don't talk to me about life
The other day I was eating by myself at a restaurant and happened to overhear a heart-to-heart conversation between (two people who I assumed to be) a father and his teenage son. The father had (something like) this to say:
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