It's that time of year again, everyone.

D'An-Dun-Dun, July.

And in honor of the transitions this month,

I went to one of the funniest people I know

and asked her if she'd be willing to share

some of her July stories that humbled her,

made her laugh, and everything in between.

I'm Maria Roscoe, I'm a hospitalist and I primarily work as a nocturnist.

Which is like such a hard job and you rock it so well.

Thank you.

Maybe there were some stories in the pipeline that prepped you for that.

And there certainly was a handful of good stories. Five to be exact, that made July extra memorable for Maria. Let's start with her first July in the hospital.

When I was a third year medical student, my first day on a clinical rotation, I was on

OB GIN and I was on the GIN-OOC service and they assigned me one patient to see and it should have been really

straightforward. She was a few days post-op from a major abdominal surgery and I

ask her how she's feeling and she says you know I feel okay but my

incision feels a little strange it feels kind of wet and so I say, okay, may I take a look and I peel back the

blankets covering her abdomen and I see that her wound has completely dehist.

And not only has it dehist,

but I can see wet glistening organs extruding from the wound.

And she says, does it look okay?

And I see.

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