Browsing: Ranjana

I have always thought, and still tell prospective medical students, that the most attractive part of being a doctor is there is something in it for…

‘Why do you always grip the dashboard like that when I am driving?’It’s the bleary-eyed 5am run to rowing practice and I have just relented to…

One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that…

“Are you anxious?”“A little bit.”“What medications do you take?”The neatly packed transparent plastic bag is a gift for the nurse.My mother is having a procedure and…

“So, what do I say when they call me for surgery?”“Well, that shouldn’t happen because I will talk to them.”“But if they do?”“Don’t attend the appointment.”“Just…

I recently came across a letter to an ethicist that made me stop. A doctor’s mother sustained a head injury from falling on concrete. The son…