1) Tomorrow I have to tell one of my clinic patients that they have cancer. I haven't seen this person in a while. I would imagine that the clinic calling to schedule a test result would invoke a bit of panic, given that pts usually can't get in to see us.
2) We started our day, at 8:30 am with telling a mid-20s woman (who is a patient on our team) that her mother had been pronounced dead in the ICU. Her sister died yesterday as well. We then took her to her father's room (who is also a patient on our team) and she told him that his ex-wife was dead, and his daughter had died the day before. Not fun stuff.
3) I had to call a family member of another patient to tell them that it was possible we would be intubating her brother by the end of the day. As it turns out, he has been able to avoid the tube so far.
I'm tired.
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