“You'll always remember the first person you code,” my medical school mentor once
told me. He was right, though not for the reasons I expected. I was able to avoid
this grisly rite of passage prior to residency training, but shortly into my intern
year I found myself returning to his words as I pressed rhythmically on Ms. Johnson's
brittle, tumor-fraught thorax.
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Publication history
Published online: December 22, 2021
Accepted:
December 14,
2021
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