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Two Weeks Later: Reflections After the ICU

Two Weeks Later: Reflections After the ICU

✍️This post is a follow-up to The Night Before the ICU—a piece I wrote on the eve of starting my first meaningful rotation as an intern. I'm writing this now while on an elective, having just finished my two weeks in the ICU. My wife was right:

The Night Before the ICU

The Night Before the ICU

I’m afraid. Afraid of failing in a high-stakes setting. It feels like I haven’t done a meaningful medicine rotation since third year of medical school, and now, I’m about to start a two-week ICU rotation—managing nearly ten patients, introducing myself to them and their families as