Lessons from a beach walk early this morning: a small miracle it is when surgical residents, fragile shells, survive the rough tumble of training onto the shore of their careers unbroken. Near impossible, I’d say, to ever find one intact. There is beauty, however, in a lustrous fragment of what once must have been a […]
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Oatmeal Toffee Cookies
If I have learned anything in my short and arguably insubstantial life, it is this: Feed others when you are hungry. And so, more cookies for general surgery residents after another 16 hour day amongst ORs. I’m starting to wonder if my curious and near-maniacal love of surgery once was, in fact, unprecedented levels of […]
Maple Bread Pudding with Pralines
I’m afraid this last week of surgery finds me spiraling into heavier and heavier contemplation. What if these are the last opportunities I’ll have to touch bowel, to fire an anastomotic stapler, to stitch long incisions closed, to stand for seventeen hours around an open abdomen and enjoy the time passing as though we are […]