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We need to get over our professional ego, and focus on being well

Amy Fan, MD
Physician
October 7, 2017

I am the “sick” resident this month.

Instead of seeing check-ups and doing physicals, I see walk-in patients and triage same-day appointments. When my desk phone rings, the standard greeting in clinic is, “This is Amy — sick.”

After a few days, I started joking that I am to be called the Well resident from now on. Some people laughed, and many said, “What would that mean?” Somewhere between the 50th and …

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We need to get over our professional ego, and focus on being well

Natural disasters in a time of telemedicine

Amy Fan, MD
Physician
September 8, 2017

My significant other is a physician working in Houston, and he missed Hurricane Harvey over the weekend, being out of town for a conference. The hospital sent out an S.O.S. asking faculty to do their best to come in. As the Houston airports continued to be closed Monday and Tuesday, he and his colleague, also a physician and a native of Houston, flew to another airport and drove a few …

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Natural disasters in a time of telemedicine

The fine line between do no harm and do nothing

Amy Fan, MD
Physician
September 2, 2017

On a particularly sultry day in a hospital of the Peruvian Amazon, I found myself with the task of telling a group of parents that their babies, who had been waiting in the hallways for days without eating in preparation for surgery, would not be able to have their cleft lip and palate fixed. We, a group of American doctors and medical staff offering this procedure free of charge to …

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The fine line between do no harm and do nothing

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