By Kyra Edson
Peer Reviewed
Wedges are triangular tools that have traditionally been used to split wood along the grain. The mechanical advantage of a wedge is its ability to accomplish this split with less force …
Category: Tales from the Bedside
Clinical Correlations
More Than A Medical Note
July 15, 2016
By Alicia Cowley, MD
Ms. R had been admitted late the previous night so I expected that I would have to gently nudge her from her sleep. So as I peeked around …
The Pool
June 24, 2016
By Jafar Al-Mondhiry, MD
I’m surprised I even noticed it. The patient gowns, IV poles, slipper-socks—all normal fare in the hallways of a busy hospital. But down in the elevator bank, just between the …
Defiance
June 5, 2015By Amar Parikh, MD
I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art and stumbled across this sculpture called “Woman of Venice II” by Alberto Giacometti. It made me recall an experience I had with a patient on the hematology service this past autumn, and I could not help but marvel at …
Microbiome Blues in E
April 1, 2015
By M tanner
Many bacteria live in and on me—I’ve always known that. But when I learned that bacteria make up 90% of the cells in my body, it made me feel so sucio, so unclean.
I went through my day, …
Tales of Survival: A Dose of Perspective
January 31, 2014
By Kaitlyn Dugan
My steps echoed in the hallway of the 17th floor of Bellevue Hospital as my head remained buried in the H&P my resident handed me only a few seconds earlier. Mr. W was a 64 year-old African American …
Book Review: What Doctors Feel-Danielle Ofri, MD
August 2, 2013
By Michael Tanner, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
What Doctors Feel, Danielle Ofri’s answer to Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors Think, explores how doctors’ emotions affect the practice of medicine in good and bad ways. As the saxophone …
Tales of Survival: “Waiting for a bed”
July 12, 2013
By Anjali Varma Desai, MD
Mr. X is an 83- year-old male with a history of dementia, hyperlipidemia, irritable bowel syndrome, benign prostatic hypertrophy, hypothyroidism and chronic kidney disease …