Reflections of a Grady Doctor

I was told one thing. That your aortic heart valve was narrow and tight and that, just maybe, one day very soon you would need that val...

When you work at the only hospital that turns NO ONE away? Sometimes it gets kind of busy. And on the busiest times of your busiest day...

Her: "You a extrovert, ain't you?" Me: *pointed at my chest* "Me? Extrovert? Hmmm. I definitely think of myself as a...

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.  The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.  Th...

"I am ready to stop all this stuff," she said. "You can, you know. You can." That response surprised her. I reste...

“Not too heavy-handed, hear?” she told her great-grandson. “You know Mama tenderheaded.” She turned to look him in his eye and he froze ...

"I KNOW I almost died," he said. "My chest was hurting so bad in this way that wasn't normal. It wasn't getting b...

Me: "Are you from Georgia?" Her: "No. I'm from Alabama." Me: "Really? Where 'bout?" Her: ...

"Is that your first baby?" That's what the elderly lady said to me who'd just stepped onto the crowded Grady elevato...

He was estranged from his family. No one could fully put their finger on just why that was but all of the notes in the chart underscore...

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for  whom the bell toll...

My patient took off her glasses and said, "I can't keep looking through these rose-colored glasses. I just can't." I...

"as always, details changed to protect anonymity "Where are you from? You aren't from Georgia," I said. His mus...

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