The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $2.99 USD. 19770 words. Published by Olo Books on June 29, 2011. .
Welcome to the ER through the eyes of an emergency doctor. That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the department, "You. Are. The Most. Unfeeling doctor. I have ever met!" Come on in.

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.