Written by Bemen Habashi, MD, Clinical Educator at the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program
Five days into my attending role in the medical service ward in the U.S., one of my team’s patients unexpectedly had a cardiac arrest and passed away. It was a devastating moment. My colleagues and I went back to the medical records to discuss what could have gone wrong, but unfortunately he was very sick and came late in the course of his illness.