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The Alcoholic Jehovah’s Witness with a Bleeding Stomach Ulcer


The man should have been in his prime, but lay in his 30s in his ICU bed when I returned back in the morning. I was on my medical intensive care unit rotation during residency.  We were rounding with the attending ICU doctor, describing each patient’s illness and plan, when I heard the patient’s story.             “Mr. Terry is a 35 year…

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Drowning In Grief


The EMS call alerted us to a young drowning victim en route.  I dropped my chart and hurried to the resuscitation room.  “Did they say how soon they’d be here?” I asked the head nurse, Cammie, who was hurriedly putting on gloves.  “Did they say how old the kid is?” “They said they were just getting off the highway…and they…

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