Another Airport Story…

On the way back from some interviews across the country, I was sitting opposite a little boy and his grandmother waiting for the same flight. He was probably about four or five, and was a cute little thing with blue eyes and curly light brown hair. The entire time he sat there making faces at …

This is why peds…

The toddler sister of my patient runs up to me and growls theatrically, then runs behind her mom. She repeats this several times until I notice her little pink shoelaces are untied. I point this out to her, so she stops mid-growl to let me tie her shoe. When I ask for the other foot, …

Med School Mood

Med school mood

Oh my heart…

Today I was booking it across the ward to try to make it to my journal club presentation on time and a little boy was standing outside his sister’s room. He looked up at me with the biggest, most imploring eyes I have ever seen, so I stopped in my tracks and crouched down to …

The real superheroes

Me, to my 5yo patient wearing a Superman T-shirt: So are you gonna go home and save the world? Patient: No. Me: Oh? So then the world is just gonna have to figure it out on their own? Patient: No... Me: So then... who's gonna save them? Patient: Daddy, 'cause he's the real superhero. Patient's …

You know you work in a children’s hospital when…

…you’re putting an IV in a teenager and everyone in the room is singing and bopping to “Baby Shark”

Guilt

As much as I try to focus on the positives of my journey through medicine thus far, I feel like it would be a disservice to myself and to anyone who reads my blog and  a) is also in a career in medicine,  b) wishes to maybe pursue a career in medicine, or  c) is …

Everyone in healthcare needs a soulmate (or a few)

We met in the health sciences building during the first year of our undergrad. He sat in the left section of the lecture hall, and I called him by the wrong name, thinking I’d met him before.  I hadn’t.  Face on fire, I squeaked out an apology and introduced myself. He told me what his …

Tearing up in the ER like…

Anyone who has ever worked in critical care for any period of time will quickly understand the fatigue and the slight (or not-so-slight) sinking feeling that comes with the difficult patient that comes in during the night for something that seems trivial, non-urgent, or “unfixable”. For me, this is usually the patient that comes in with …