The patient who just wanted to be heard

I was two months into my first year of medical school when I experienced it for the first time.

“Room 214 … oh yeah, she’s a real pain. She will probably talk your ear off and come up with a new self-diagnosis that she will want to get a full workup for. She always does.”

Nervously, I laughed it off. I grew up in a household where doctors are held in high …

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