Danielle Reznicsek is an emergency physician who blogs at Stories from the ER.

Modern medicine is disappointing to many of us at the later end of our careers

Physician
July 10, 2023

I graduated from medical school in 1995. I completed an internal medicine and pediatrics residency in 1999, after which I spent three years in private practice, then moved on to a hospitalist practice for the next four years. From there, I transitioned to an ER job, where I have been for the last seventeen years.

In the ER, my role initially involved expeditiously seeing patients and only performing what was absolutely …

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Modern medicine is disappointing to many of us at the later end of our careers

Social distance, yes, but don’t be afraid of the outdoors

Conditions and Diseases
May 3, 2020

I am an ER physician in Jacksonville, FL.

Yesterday, I learned that a top health official in New Zealand was reprimanded for taking his family to the beach. He did this after orders had been given to stay home, and strict social distancing had been mandated. This was not his only offense — he was also reported to have been seen riding his mountain bike. New Zealand’s outbreak has appeared to …

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Social distance, yes, but don’t be afraid of the outdoors

Is medicine a minefield of gender discrimination and abuse?

Physician
March 9, 2020

I am a 57-year-old female physician, and I remember an incident that involved a cardiologist on the other end of the phone, roughly fifteen years ago. I had recently started work as a hospitalist, and the cardiologist and I had never met. He clearly didn’t pay attention to my introduction, because when he heard my female voice calling from one the hospital floors to tell him that the twenty-seven-year-old patient …

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Is medicine a minefield of gender discrimination and abuse?