Caffeine Intoxicated : A Narrative Medicine Story

How paying attention to what happens in our lives can help us understand biology

Dear readers, what follows is a piece of personal narrative medicine. It is for the purpose of helping people learn biology and how it interacts with stigma, perception, employment law, and the stories we tell ourselves.

In August and September of 2015, I began my child psychiatry fellowship at the NYU School of Medicine. My first rotation was on the child psychiatry unit at Bellevue Hospital which specializes in young children ages 3 to 11. It is a unit called 21 South.

One of the things that pediatricians learn in their Internship is that kids are sick…often. We learn by also being infected in their presence.