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Sayed Tabatabai, MD

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

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

(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

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

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

(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

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

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

“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

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

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

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