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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 6/2010

01-06-2010 | Healing Arts

Room with a View

Author: Adam Possner, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 6/2010

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As a Medicine chief resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, one of my roles each month is to orient the medical students who rotate with our ward teams. After reviewing the basic structure of the rotation, I take the students on a tour, beginning with the first floor and culminating with the wards on the fifth floor. On the wards I make a special point to show them the view: a few miles to the south, the “bay” after which the hospital is named (it’s actually the Patapsco River, which empties into the Chesapeake Bay) and, to the west, the downtown Baltimore skyline. …
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Title
Room with a View
Author
Adam Possner, MD
Publication date
01-06-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1308-y

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