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A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. .

Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.
No Air    by Melissa Yi
Price: $1.99 USD. 18410 words. Published by Olo Books on August 7, 2011. .

Dr. Valerie Chia strides into St. Joseph's emergency room expecting the usual Montreal Monday morning chaos. But when the other day doctor goes AWOL and a patients crashes, Val's up the creek, in a handbasket, even before she lets resident Dr. Hope Sze try the emergency airway... Debut episode (half-hour pilot script) of a medical radio drama featuring Dr. Hope Sze.
The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged: More True Tales From Med School and Beyond    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $2.99 USD. 27250 words. Published by Olo Books on October 7, 2011. .

Was I always The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World? Of course not. I offer you counter-examples from medical school, a time when I was so earnest, I scraped my finger on the mannequin while practicing my digital rectal exam technique (true story). Now I practice emergency medicine in the digital age, where Twitter co-exists with trauma and tendonitis. Come on in.
THE WEL-MART WAY    by Kevin Bayless
You set the price! 4250 words. Published on May 6, 2012. .

The Wel-Mart Way is a fictional, humorous account of how one of our nation's largest retailers plans to solve the health care crisis.