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The First Time I Was the Last Call to a Patient's Family

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Felix Reyes, MD

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The First Cut is the Deepest

Kristen Carter, MD

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Dropping the Fear of Diagnosing

Kumkum Ahluwalia, MD

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She Was Asking for a Piece of My Humanity

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The Journey Is More Humbling Than Poignant

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Recall in the On-Call Room

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Fighting Battles Inside and Outside the OR

Ahmad Zeineddin, MD

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The First Divide

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The Unforeseen Weight of My First Autopsy

Jeffrey Howard Millstein, MD

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Wearing Scrubs Right Out of the Box: Looking Back On My First Day of Internship

Komal Paladugu, MD

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Lost in the ER: The First Time I Sutured a Patient

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I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could

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Before I Was the Zebra, I Had Learned About It

Robert Echenberg, MD

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The Words That Help Patients Understand

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The Silver Lining of My First Patient Death

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'Either You Wipe Those Tears or You Leave Right Now'

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My First Medical School Lesson, as a Patient

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The First Time I Brought a Baby Into the World

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'I Longed to Save Him — to Save Us Both.'

Nicole Yordan Lopez, MD

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They Tried to Be Kids, Despite Their Circumstances

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CPR Can Save, but It Can Also Cause Suffering

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