Boundaries I met Winter under auspicious conditions. My first rotation since taking Step 2 in the field I actually want to go into—psychiatry. He had already been on the psych ward a few days. Admitted recently against his will following two other recent psychiatric admissions. A 25 year-old male …
My most important contribution to medicine is the following essay. The word ‘diabetes’ means peeing a lot. ‘Diabetes mellitus’ means peeing a lot of sweet-tasting urine. Yummy. This phraseology was originally used to describe ‘type 1 diabetes mellitus.’ This is an autoimmune disease in wh…
“Rats are female, people are women,” explained the attending physician. I was a lowly shadowing pre-med at the time, and everything the attending said was deific to me. But why was he wasting precious seconds on semantics? Now, I understand how much words matter in medicine. How we speak …