Patient interactions that I do not want to forget:

"Can I help you with anything else?"

She looked at me, and asked for a hug. 

As I leaned over, and wrapped my arms around her, my heart broke.

I cradled the phone against my shoulder.

"I'll be calling you next month just to follow-up and see how you're doing. Is that okay?"

Weeping on the other end of the line - my patient started to cry and told me that no one had bothered to care for her in a long time.

I sat in the room with a patient, and I found out that he lived on the same street as me.

"Hey, we're practically neighbors!"

He asked me if I was the girl who rode the red bike.

"What! Crazy! I am that girl. I bike to work everyday!"

I was flagged because one of my patients had attempted suicide and he had recently been discharged from the Emergency Room. I was to call him to help schedule him to see his doctor. 

I dialed his number.

1st attempt: No answer.

2nd attempt: No answer.

3rd attempt: No answer.