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Sayed Tabatabai, MD
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Trust is a delicate thing.Those first crucial moments of trying to establish it.Sifting through the words and the veneers, trying to find a person’s character, to find their heart.Trust is
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As I write this it’s about 3:17AM, and I can’t sleep.Something is on my mind, and so I’ll do what I’ve always done in moments like these.I’ll write.I’m thinking of
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(Shared with permission.)As we finish up the visit, I wonder again.What’s in the backpack?The patient sits before me. A large man of few words, head shaved, muscles rippling, tattoos.I finally
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The year is 2006.I’m a medicine resident rotating through the ER. Together with a surgical resident and ER attending, I am responsible for working up patients and assigning admissions.It’s the
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I am a medical student, plagued with a thousand insecurities, unsure of my future, drowning in debt, and completely lost on my renal rotation.The attending nephrologist sits across from me.He
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(CW: cancer, and death in a hospital. This thread is based on something that happened 20 years ago, as told to me by people who were there.)There is a quiet
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In line to vote early in San Antonio.Have never seen it like this. Nobody’s quite sure where the line starts. Everyone says to get behind “the guy with the purple
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Wake up with a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach.Not quite anxiety, not quite fear.Shower and it doesn’t go away.Drive to work, construction on the roads, take the
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“Why do you want to be a doctor?”I answer without hesitation, “I want to help people.”“There are many ways to help people.”“I want to save lives.”“There are many ways to
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The moment is captured by the camera forever.A little girl leans in to blow out the candles on a birthday cake.Around her, everyone leans forward expectantly, ready to cheer. Ready
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What happens to a secret nobody remembers?Does it cease to be?There was something important I used to know.Something that saved me, once.Is it gone forever? 1/ I reach the hospital
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It’s Fall on the Great Plains of America, in the late 1800s.The first thing that hits him is the stench. The overpowering odor of rot and decay.The buzzing of flies
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