Residents

By JALAL BAIG, MD Robert Wood Johnson Internal Medicine Residency Program, New Brunswick, NJ We become acutely aware of the hurdles presented by the medical profession early on in the journey from pre-medical student to healer. As I run towards the close of my internal medicine residency, a lot of what was once insuperable has…

By RAMY SEDHOM, MD Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Internal Medicine It was a month into my internship and she was the patient I’ll never forget. Like many of my co-interns, I wondered about entering internal medicine. My patients never improved, bouncing in an out of the hospital. I became uncomfortably familiar with chronic and terminal medication…