A DAY IN THE LIFE:
DR. MARC MOISI, NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY RESIDENT STORY AND PHOTOS BY DENNY ANGELLE
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ike any big city, Houston wakes up gradually: first glimpses of daylight glint off the top-floor glass of tall buildings, and people begin to find their way to work. Even as Houston opens its eyes, people are flowing through The Methodist Hospital like the day’s first coffee. Dr. Marc Moisi pulls on a white lab coat over his blue scrubs. He has been at work since 5 a.m., making rounds and seeing patients. Moisi is a neurological surgery resident in the third year of his graduate medical training. He has received his medical degree, now he is training to be a neurosurgeon. Moisi goes to the room of a patient who has had back surgery. After washing his hands, he snaps on a pair of gloves and begins to change the bandages on the patient’s back. “It looks good,” Moisi tells the patient. “How is the pain?” The patient still has some pain when he stands. The doctor assures the patient he can be discharged after staying one more night. That seems to reassure both the patient and his wife. Moisi reminds them the attending surgeon who performed the procedure would be checking on the patient later in the day. It’s all about the patient: Moisi doesn’t say it, but he knows it, lives it, breathes it. What he does say is, “I really love what I do. Some people may say it but they don’t believe it. But I really do love this kind of work.” Moisi is 30 years old. He is from Queens, New York, a graduate of New York University and Columbia University. He served his internship at Weill Cornell Medical College and chose the program at Methodist because of the reputations of the physician-teachers here.
It’s all about the patient: Moisi doesn’t say it, but he knows it, lives it, breathes it. METHODISTHEALTH.COM
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