Physician, Teacher, Writer
Catherine taught school, Itzam played professional soccer, Megan was a doula, Mallory read philosophy, Mackenzie was an advocate, Maggie served the homeless, and Sarah fixed bikes. Now these seven students are becoming doctors, together, in a new way.
In Progress Notes, they follow patients instead of physicians. Visiting patients at the hospital and at home, the students learn from the textbook of the body, but also the textbook of the community.
While studying the two textbooks, they also live: marrying, parenting, and becoming ill themselves all while they meet their Match and the kind of physician they will be for the rest of their lives… and the kind of physician they will be for others.
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As Muddy sang, “I know you’re coming back home,” and my troubles will come to an end…. eventually.
The book opens after a visit to the doctor and ends, a year later, with a question about medications. In between, Ginzburg offers a portrait of hypochondria as a manifestation of status anxiety. She writes short and spare, like Chekhov, while sounding out how thoughts take bodily shapes. “I told you…
They say the first cut is the deepest, because the deep cuts from childhood and trauma underlie every struggle.
As Muddy sang, “I know you’re coming back home,” and my troubles will come to an end…. eventually.
They say the first cut is the deepest, because the deep cuts from childhood and trauma underlie every struggle.
Songs for– I hope– the most discouraging phase of the pandemic. This one is from someone who encourages me– my sister– so if you haven’t already, get your vaccine!