![]() ![]() ![]() I wondered if, in my brief time as a physician, I had made more moral slides than strides.įor the most part, the memoir’s first half feels familiar: yet another well-written young doctor memoir that would have been more interesting if he’d waited it out for a few years and gained some perspective. Pretty tasty, I thought, picking chocolate chips out of my teeth as the family said its last goodbyes. Thirty minutes in the freezer resuscitated the sandwich. With one of the ER residents covering for me, I slipped back in, ghostlike, to save the ice cream sandwich in front of the corpse of the son I could not. Then I remembered: my Diet Coke, my ice cream sandwich … and the sweltering heat of the trauma bay. I slipped out of the trauma bay just as the family was brought in to view the body. ![]()
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