<span itemprop="author">Veronica Bonales, MD

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When saving a child isn’t possible: a heartbreaking day in the ED

Sometimes doing what we do is so hard. We get intimately involved in our patients’ lives, and instead of maintaining a clinical distance, you get sucked into the drama that has unfolded in their lives—the very events that bring them to the ED on …

The forgotten patients: When missing people are just lost

I am a true crime buff, and I work in the emergency department. Sometimes the two seem to blur together. In my career, I have followed my patients to the coroner’s office, going to see the autopsies on traumas, sudden deaths, or sometimes murders…