By Alyssa Brown Blue, white, red, yellow, pink, and brown. These are the colors of the ties and the strip of fabric around the scrub pants and scrub tops. Maybe it sounds dramatic, but...
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How was your day?
By Alyssa Brown How was your day? This is always such a loaded question. It also probably explains why I don’t call my family and non-medical friends as much while I’m on the trauma ICU rotation....
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Coming Home
By Alyssa Brown I left Louisville 2 years and 51 weeks ago- now I am back. When I moved to Minnesota to get my PhD, I knew that I would come back. It was always a temporary goodbye to the hospital. G...
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White Coat
By Sophia Hernandez, MD Many leaders in medicine have identified the white coat as a shield of armor—a “visibility cloak”—the very piece of cloth that provides minority physicians wit...
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A Transplant Reflection
By Priya Suri At first glance, he was a sinewy man—built long and hard. He was wheeled into the operating room (OR) intubated and eyes blinking. Was he blinded by the blaring white lights just l...
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Fostering International Collaborations: How Can We Become More Engaged?
By Camila Guetter Every day, universities and health centers across the globe lead independent successful initiatives in the field of medicine. These actions can often bring important changes to t...
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Black Clouds
by Alyssa Brown “You won’t see much with Dr. C on call this weekend because he’s a white cloud,” mumbled my attending. I immediately asked what he meant. He gave me a withering lo...