Sam Blackman

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85 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Moth · Walking the Walk: The Moth Radio Hour · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

We had a week-long debate about coffee enemas.

It's a thing.

And my attending had never heard about coffee enemas.

And so he sent me to go research coffee enemas.

And when I came back, he said, you go into the room.

and tell her why we can't do daily coffee enemas.

And so I went into the room.

But because I presented both sides of the issues to her, she actually started to let me in, literally let me in.

I was the only doctor who could go into the room.

And every day I would sit outside and we'd round as a team and then I would go into the room and I would examine Brianna and I would talk to her about the plan and then I'd come out and communicate with the team.

And so for a few weeks until I went off service, I was exclusively Brianna's doctor.

But then rotations end and teams rotate off and residents change and I went on to the next thing.

About a month later, I was coming home from dinner with my wife on a Saturday night.

My pager went off, and it was a nurse from the pavilion, which is the part of the hospital where the palliative care patients stay.

And the nurse said that she thought that Brianna was dying and wanted to know if I would come in.

Now, I wasn't on call or on service, but something told me that I should go.

So I called my attending on service, and I said,

would you meet me there because I've never attended a death before and believe it or not, attending a death is a lot more complicated.

You don't just sort of stand there and wait for the person to die.

One of the horrible things that they neglect to tell you at the start of your pediatric residency is that children take a really long time to die because they've got brand new hearts and brand new lungs and their bodies really try to cling to life and think about that for a minute and think about what that looks like.

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