Reading Fiction in Medical School? Surely You Jest.
Patrick McCabe When he visited UAB last year, Abraham Verghese opened his talk with the statement that if one no longer read fiction, the brain would die. His strong words offered reassurance that at...
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Patrick McCabe Author’s note: Mild spoilers ensue. “Call the doc.” Jeff Daniels, as a crime boss named Abe, utters the only explicit reference to a health care professional in director Rian Johnson’s...
View ArticleAnecdotes from the Wards
Patrick McCabe Scene I: 7:30 a.m. in the OR at the VA [Elderly gentleman with too many comorbidities to be induced into sleep. He is given local anesthesia and lies draped on the operating table....
View ArticleThe Mild, Existential Adventures Past and Present of Javier Fitzsimmons,...
Patrick McCabe Author’s note: This piece will be published in the University of Alabama School of Medicine’s upcoming Voices in Word Literary Journal, published by its Narrative Medicine Interest...
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