The First Person I Saw Die

Right Brain: and I saw a brain die.

Nitin K. Sethi, MD As an intern in medicine I had responded to and participated actively in many cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) code calls. Even though the code was often unsuccessful, there was something reassuring about giving chest compressions or ventilation and I felt I had done something and given my all. Nothing, though, quite prepared me for the helplessness I felt the day I saw a ...

The first time ever I saw your face.

The perception of social information is crucial for the survival of most animal species. Two recent studies demonstrate the joint contribution of innate mechanisms and perceptual experience to two aspects of social perception--faces and biological motion. Together, they highlight how important it is to consider faces and biological motion as different visual properties used by a broader social ...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

The Best Thing I Saw at ASCO

The 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting was a practice-changing event sure to excite even the most dispassionate among us. In my own field of gastrointestinal oncology, there were seismic alterations in the way many will now approach adjuvant therapy in colorectal and biliary tract cancers. And as we enter the brave newworld of histology agnosticism, even Kuhn would...

The most memorable patient I never saw.

Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...