Imagine that you come home to find your daughter in tears. She’s been acting strangely for the past year, but she never tells you what’s going on. This time she finally tells you: She can’t stop thinking about killing herself with a knife in the kitchen. After an hour of talking, you realize that she doesn’t want to die, but she has obsessive thoughts about hurting herself. She’s overwhelmed, and …
Children suffer mentally, but no one helps
“We don’t want them here.”
President Trump could not have sent a clearer message to Muslim children around the world. In the eyes of our nation’s elected leader, these kids are not wanted in the United States.
Trump’s immigration policies have been focused on keeping “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the United States, but research in child psychiatry suggests that …
How President Trump may be radicalizing Muslim children
Imagine while driving into work, you drive through a green light. When you look to the right, you see a car barreling through the intersection, and then everything goes black. You vaguely remember being taken into the emergency room of a prestigious hospital nearby. In the ED, you hear a doctor’s voice yelling at nurses to give you medications, and then everything goes black. You wake up in a hospital …
What should my doctor look like?
On Saint Patrick’s Day, my classmates and I will file into a room. Each of us will pick up a small white envelope, and we’ll open them together. Inside those envelopes will be the answer to a question we have wondered for months: Where did I match? Where will I begin my career as an MD, and what kind of doctor will I be? After years of endless studying, hundreds …
I’m afraid of public humiliation on Match Day
It’s rare for medical students nowadays to go through training without knowing someone who uses prescription stimulants to study. The ever-popular Adderall and Concerta seem to be omnipresent on college campuses and medical schools, while prescriptions for these medications are suspiciously less common. In environments where success and self-worth are often based on academic achievement, the temptation to succumb to using these pills is high.
The temptation is even higher as …
Does Adderall make you underachieve?
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