Essays
Field Notes
Essays on the hidden curriculum of academic medicine and surgical life: judgment, culture, identity, and the lessons often carried in silence.
Surgery teaches in fragments: a patient, an operation, a mistake, a recovery, and the life that continues outside the hospital.
Field Notes is where I write down the lessons worth keeping.
FIELD NOTE 001
When Feedback Stops Helping
On surgical feedback, inherited teaching habits, and the culture we pass on.
A personal essay on the difference between feedback that teaches and feedback that carries forward the harshness many surgeons experienced in training.
July 2026 · 7-8 minutesFIELD NOTE 002
The Attending Is a Haunted House
What we inherit, what we repeat, and what we choose to rebuild.
We do not inherit only technique. We inherit tempo, posture, language, and ideas about what authority should feel like.
July 2026 · 10-12 minutesFIELD NOTE 003
The Post-Call Body
On exhaustion, estrangement, and the double we send home.
The post-call resident meets her fetch sometime around sunrise.
July 2026 · 14-16 minutesRelated Conversation
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