A Fellow's Reflections

Reena Gurung Dr. Gurung earned her MBBS degree from the Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences in Nepal and completed her Internal Medicine residency at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, MO. She completed her Nephrology Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis and will join the faculty in the Division of Nephrology in September 2021. Dr. Gurung has a keen interest in glomerular diseases and was a fellow in the inaugural class of the virtual Glomerular Diseases Fellowship at GlomCon ( https://edu.glomcon.org/2021-2022-fellowship/2020-2021-fellowship). She wrote this poem to celebrate her and her colleagues' nephrology fellowship graduation.

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Late nights and early mornings Days infused with caffeine and steep learning Hi, it's renal, what is the reason for calling? Lytes awry, hematuria, proteinuria, and allograft rejecting Uremia, hypervolemia, anuria, will you be dialyzing?

Crescents, mesangial, endocapillary cells insane, Beauties are spikes and pinholes, on the silver stain ALMS, Euro-Lupus, BLISS-LN, now voclosporin, Seriously, what else is in the making?

Case conference, journal club, grand round, CPC broadcasting you name it, we did it, with the virtual platforming Unlearn and re-learn, then teach and learn, the entire journey, certainly quite humbling

Through late nights and early mornings Procedures galore and urine spinning Through cases common, others rare, and everything in-between, past couple of years, nothing short of amazing!

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