**Brushes off the proverbial dust ** So I’m back just shy of a year since my last post and I wish I could say I was so busy with life that I couldn’t write anything but what actually happened was that I just looked around one day & saw that all the lifelong goals I …
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“Just because you failed, don’t make you a failure. And just because you lost, don’t make you a loser” ~ Dr. Eric Thomas I get asked often just what keeps me going, keeps me happy & keeps me sane after all these years of trying to become the physician I am today. I have been …
This was a discussion brought up to me recently by a colleague of mines, which I found extremely interesting. We both are very familiar with serving the role of primary motivator/mentor for people in our lives, so the question came down to who gets people like us motivated when we are down. I started asking …
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Code blue is one of those things that you just hate to hear as a medical resident. In this business of hospital medicine there is an understanding that some people who walk into the ER might not leave the hospital. As residents, we are always aware of the possibility but our super hero mentality never wants …
Innocence fades in the light of another code blue Read More »
There are times when you have to sit back, recognize & acknowledge those who were supportive in your journey on becoming a physician. Unfortunately, this particular medicine resident isn’t one of those people. I am writing this to serve as encouragement for those who while on the road to their dream might run into obstacles …
Today I turn 28 and if you have been keeping up with the blog I am on my last year of school and I am getting closer to being able drop the student doctor from my name and officially become Dr. Pierre. There are very few words that could describe the feeling of actually living …
Being in a relationship was one of the toughest things (besides the class work) I experienced during my time in school over the past four years. In most relationships sacrifices must be made for the better of the relationship but I truly believe and of course I am bias that medical school is just one …
Just where are all the mentors when you need them? As I was browsing one of my favorite sites Student Doctor it hit me that A LOT of the pre-medical students have no clue how to go about removing the prefix from their title. This is a problem that I know of very well because I …
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