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Oversights

Kelley Jean White MD

I left in 3 sutures but mumbled
Something about scabs.

My handwriting made the pharmacist read
Haldol for albuterol.

I missed the lymphoma, called it:
‘functional abdomincal pain.’

I forget to ask about depression.

I saw the nystagmus and suspected meningitis.
Correctly.

I found out the mother has low calcium too.
A patient with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism!

I got you to talk about your sister’s stillbirth.

I showed up. 30 years. I showed up.

But I hated each day.

I thought I was better than my colleagues.
I thought I was better than my patients.

I listened to a grandmother.
I listened some more.

I cried.

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