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Innocence revisited
Innocence revisited
Abstract
As one of our readers relates, you’ll always remember your first patient.
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It was overnight in the emergency department, my first shift as an intern. Twelve hours to go. Just don’t kill anyone. Twelve hours to go. This was all I could think of as I walked fearfully towards the ‘Eye Room’ with my patient following me. I had called out his name in a high pitched squeak, and when he greeted me with ‘Hi doc’, I looked around before it dawned on me that he meant me.
Mental note 1: You are a doctor, no longer a mediocre medical student. You are a doctor.
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