Surgeon Junior

Of all the false hopes perpetuated by doctors, “Do No Harm” is, to me, the worst of them. This ideal, that we force graduating medical...

Five months into my second-year of residency I burned the cystic artery. I’d been operating a bunch at one of the smaller hospitals,...

My hands were in someone’s abdomen when the page came through. I was changing the dressings for a patient who had been in the hospital...