so luckily my intern year has been pretty chill thus far. a few bumps here and there, but totally enjoyable. i'm down to one, that's right, one patient now, but this might be one of the toughest i've ever had. she's sweet, emotional, almost too emotional, filipino, and came in because she thought she fractured her hip in a fall seven months ago. everything was manageable until an exacerbation a couple days ago. she gets admitted, has a scan, and now it looks like she has metastatic cancer, primary unknown. so instead of coming in for a basic orthopedic procedure with the hopes of walking again after a prolonged course of rehab, she gets a veritable death sentence. life is hard.