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A Beloved Mentor Falls

Pierre Van Zyl8th November 2018being a patient, family, ICU, illness, mentors, our partners, PracticeBalance, residency, sadness

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I walk by the closed double doors and frosty windows of the ICU. Youâ€™re lying in there, intubated. It feels weird to go to work now. I canâ€™t see you or talk to you, donâ€™t know the drips, donâ€™t know the plan… and itâ€™s killing me. I, along wi…

Doctors Make the Worst Patients (Part 2)

Pierre Van Zyl17th January 2018being a patient, Gizabeth, hypertension

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You can take the girl out of the mania, but you can’t take the mania out of the girl.That doesn’t even make sense, I know, but most of December not long after I was diagnosed with hypertension was senseless. When I went for a follow up two weeks later …