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Editor's Forum , Editorial

Letter from the Editor

4/1/2017 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor And in the end, when the life went out of him and my hands could work no more, I left from that place into the night and wept — for myself, for life, for the tragedy of death’s
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Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

1/24/2017 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor I couldn’t stop staring at the eerie photo I had just taken from the 7th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, peering out over the intersection of Elm and Houston. I was
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Editor's Forum , Editorial

Letter from the Editor

9/26/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor I see my mail carrier about once a week. She usually arrives around 11 am, sometimes later. If I am home, I will wave from the kitchen, occasionally running out with something
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Editor's Forum , Editorial

Letter from the Editor

8/1/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor I cried the first time I read general surgery resident Dr. Joshua Corso's Facebook post about his blood-stained shoes in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting. It went somethin
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Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

5/23/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor Spring has sprung, summer is almost here, moods and pool covers have been lifted. Residency is flying by, and like seasons, the more I know and the more experiences I have, the
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Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

4/4/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor I had no intention of watching the entire first season of Fuller House in one day. Instead, I had a mile-long to-do list that should have been completed before my next shift: a
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Editor's Forum , Editorial , Personal

Letter from the Editor

1/30/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor If you had asked my elementary school self what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said an astronaut. I wore space suits made of painter’s coveralls, built a paper-mâc
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Editor's Forum , Advancement of EM , Editorial

Looking at the Past, Stepping into the Future

12/3/2015 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Looking at the Past, Stepping into the Future The St. Louis International Film Festival recently featured EMRA's Emmy Award-winning documentary 24/7/365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine. In this
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Editor's Forum

Our Call to Duty

10/4/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD
Our Call to Duty As a young man I was a Boy Scout – khaki shirt, shoulder sash, merit badges, and all. Like all of the other boys in my troop, I used to stand at attention and recite the Scout oath a
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Editor's Forum , Editorial , Wellness

The Level One Commitment

8/1/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD
The Level One Commitment I'm writing this article inside a tent. Lying on my thinning mattress pad, I can occasionally feel a refreshingly cool and crisp mountain breeze seep in through my partially