Pablo Picasso: Head of the Medical Student

Sonia Singh: Morning Report

“You pull into the hospital parking lot just before dawn — one of the first cars in, one of the last out. As a first-year resident, you make up in hours what you lack in experience. You speedwalk to the hospital’s back entrance through the January fog.

“You wonder if you left the iron on in your apartment. No matter how often you iron and bleach your white coat, it never looks or feels clean. You never look or feel clean…” Continue reading

About this chat

This chat will be held in conjunction with the Columbia Pediatrics Residency Training Program as part of its noon conference curriculum in narrative medicine. We’ll be joined by the author of “Morning Report,” Dr. Sonia Singh, along with Dr. Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu.

This chat was curated by Anoushka Sinha, MD