Ninth Doctor

The “Y” Scar It all started January of 2008, when I had to get stitches in the bottom of my right foot. At the time, I was six years old in kindergarten and it was the week of winter break. I was with my dad and my three siblings Brianna, Andrew and Garett. We all were at his girlfriend Suzie’s house. Maggie, which is Suzie’s daughter, Brianna, and I were all playing outside in the snow on the playset when we found a purse. We wanted to know what was inside but we couldn’t because it was…

Force” by William Carlos Williams tells the tale of a doctor. The doctor gets a call from a family who is concerned about their daughter. The story is written in the first person and limits the reader because the narrator is unreliable. The doctor is an unreliable narrator because he decides what to tell the reader, he uses odd words, and because of the irony. The point of view affects the reading and understanding because of the way the doctor tells the story. He uses a strange word choice and…

I was getting ear infections so bad, I would lay on the couch crying for hours because of how bad my ears hurt. My parents would take me to the doctors at least 2 times a week. The doctors didn’t believe me. Before they even looked in my ears, they would tell my parents I was exaggerating. When I told them my pain was a 100, they told my parents it was actually probably a 2. One day, though, they looked in my ears, and realized I didn’t have any eardrums left, in either of my ears. They spent…

pain and discomfort. As the nurse called my name I got a sick feeling in my gut and knew this wasn't going to end well. As I got examined I could do nothing but worry. “It’s a sprained ankle, I would give it about three weeks to recover,” the doctor…

There are many things in this world that we will never be able to explain. There are things that we probably will never discover. It is a shame then that people keep trying in vain to answer questions that we were perhaps never meant to know. For a small town couple in Alabama, this had to be learned the hard way. Vicky Thompson was a tan and dark haired girl at the conflicted age of 16. She had deep brown eyes. She loved mud riding and adored her boyfriend, Walt Green. Vicky was what you…

isolation. Once Dr. Fletcher supported Zelig and decided to be the one to cure him, she succeeded in “transcend[ing] the thought patterns of [her] society” (Fromm). Dr. Fletcher transcended society when she diagnosed Zelig differently from the other doctors. She was ridiculed simply because she was a woman, but she stood by her thoughts. This action suspended her out of society, just like Zelig. Then, Dr. Fletcher figured a solution to his fear of isolation by physically isolating him in “a…

GET INVOLVED WWW. K A P PA .ORG | 27 Clad in my chic Bendel ensemble, I found myself sitting in a Park Avenue doctor’s waiting room surrounded by skinny young men. One had an eye patch; another was hooked up to an IV. None of us spoke or looked at one another. Toes were tapping, legs twitching, magazine pages being thumbed. Attendants dozed. I was ushered into an examining room where a nurse, her eyes full of pity, asked me to step on the scale. I’d lost six pounds in the past week. When, again,…

It was a very cold and frigid sunday mornin’ in good ole’ South Carolina when I was playing ultimate frisbee. I was hot sweaty and exhausted in the cold early morning. I was the one they were going to throw the frisbee to and I looked up at the sky and the light blinded my eyes. As I was running backwards trying to catch the frisbee I almost tripped over an old wooden log. I recovered slowly from my stumble and continue to run down the wet field. As the frisbee came closer to me I could feel…

A little surprised, Brooke acknowledged the meeting and went about her business. “Thanks Jan, I will meet with him as soon as I am finished with the narcotic count”. Brooke felt extremely uncomfortable with this drug-sharing situation. She dispensed the medications to the staff and inconspicuously pocketed a few large vials of narcotics. Dr. Jull, Director of Surgical Services’ office was down the hall. She felt uneasy in meeting him. As she walked to the office, Brooke caught Jimmy…

Imagine this, you are about to become a big brother/sister, and you are anxiously waiting for the doctor to come out and tell you it is time to meet your little brother/sister. You are feeling overwhelmed with excitement and nervousness. Finally, you walk into the hospital room, and you hear your mom and dad crying. You realize you don’t see the baby anywhere around the room. You ask what is wrong, and they tell you that after the baby was born, it died shortly after from a disease that could…