Humanity Through the Otoscope
Emma YoungI am a practicing surgeon, and I write character-driven fiction as a way of making sense of the absurd, the tragic, and the deeply human realities of medicine, bridging a surgeon’s life and our shared vulnerability.
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The Last Notification: Patient Deceased
Alert: Patient deceased.
The notification sprang up, a gatekeeper of the chart, and asked for confirmation of my understanding before I clicked to open his chart.
Do you confirm? It said.
I wondered about the utility of this prompt.
D...
Surgical Interns Are Cocky and Dangerous
The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that beginners possess the most dangerous combination of traits: low competence and high confidence.
A version of this graph was shown to me during my first week of surgical internship, more than a decade...
A Surgeon’s Advice: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Agree to Surgery
Photo: Warren Alpert SOM
Anyone who has ever undergone a surgical procedure has likely been handed a text-dense piece of paper known as the informed consent form.
In my experience, most people sign it without reading it. Some skim...
His Voice Was Stolen Overnight
We are rounding on one more patient before clinic: Mr. J. His tongue is still swollen after cancer resection, forcing him to breathe through a tracheostomy. To a civilian, the surgically created opening looks like something out of a vintage...
To Scare or To Spare a Patient
Art by: Teo Georgiev
I wish to carefully thread the needle, so as not to prematurely deliver a punishing sentence. At the same time, what is the use of false hope?
He sweats easily. The shimmering beads run down his temple despite...
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I am a practicing surgeon, and I write as a way to make sense of the absurd, the tragic, and the deeply human realities of medicine, bridging a surgeon’s life and our shared vulnerability.
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