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Featured Post of the Month: Unpleasant Encounter, by an Internal Medicine Resident

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……. I believe it was the second week of my outpatient medicine rotation. Though not as  exhausting as the routine 12-to-15-hour inpatient medicine shifts, working as a resident in the  outpatient setting also has its challenges. Sometimes laboratory orders and urgent diagnostic  imaging are delayed due to insurance authorizations or perhaps patient’s inability to afford  …

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Hidden in the Night – a Family medicine Intern speaks

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So, I had survived learning the EMR—who knew Epic could be so different between hospitals? I can finally submit an order without suffering palpations every two seconds, and even answering pages without double checking everything with my team. I finally feel like I’m on the way to becoming a fully functional intern! …although, it wasn’t untill my month …

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Featured Post of the Month by 3rd year Medical Student

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In medical school, I started over… suddenly, I was a kindergartener again relearning colours, space, and letters. Here, in medical school, I learned beginnings and endings have a lot in common, you lose yourself in them.  In the hospital, i relearned colours. I taught myself what each scrub color meant so I Knew who I …

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