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The Patient Resident

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  • Natasha Z. Rabinowitz Steele, M.D., M.P.H.

The patient’s eyes close as his diagnosis sinks in. The resident sits with him in a silence filled with racing fears of the unknown. It’s that moment when everything has changed for this man: he’s gone from before to after. The resident knows this moment all too well.

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Identifying details have been changed to protect the patient’s privacy.

This article was published on March 12, 2022, at NEJM.org.

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From Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA.

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