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A Stitch in Time: How an ER Blunder Shaped My Medical Career
It was a blistering summer day in Phoenix, Arizona, and the sweltering heat was already at full blast when I walked into Maricopa Medical Center for my first day as an intern in 1985. Freshly minted, bright-eyed, and perhaps a tad too optimistic, I was initially assigned to the emergency room, the heart of controlled…