Caleb Gardner

Caleb Gardner is currently an MD candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Bedside Manner

By Caleb Gardner

Comedy thrives on contradiction, and the absurdity of life is particularly refined in the hospital. Doctors discuss breakfast as they open someone’s sternum, and a delirious patient demands green Jell-O. Laughter, it seems, is one of the few genuine reactions one can have to such a paradoxical world. But it can be deceiving. More

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A Death in Year Three

By Caleb Gardner

By the time I began my emergency medicine rotation, I had come a long way from making that first tremulous incision into a cadaver during anatomy class. Back then, at the beginning of first year, I remember trying to conceal my apprehension as we removed an opaque plastic sheet from the supine body. More