Abstract
In the ER, decisions come fast, but their weight lingers long after. A single moment can reshape a patient’s life and fracture a family’s world. This poem emerges from that night—the night I, as a doctor, picked up the scalpel, knowing everything was about to change.
Trained as a pathologist in India, I interned in the ER, witnessing patient care firsthand. Now, as a PhD candidate in Experimental Pathology in Iowa, I investigate immune mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis, bridging clinical experience with scientific discovery to advance our understanding of disease pathogenesis.
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Kale, Kshitija
(2026)
"The Decision,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 18.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol11/iss1/18