Karen Yeter is a rheumatologist who blogs at Resuscitating You.

Practice social distancing so we can #flattenthecurve

Conditions
March 20, 2020

Right now, we are all afraid. We’re all afraid of something called COVID-19.

Grocery store shelves are empty. People are fighting over toilet paper rolls. It’s beginning to look a little like Armageddon.

You’ve seen the photos, heard the stories, watched the news coverage. COVID-19 is real. It’s real, and the incredible infectivity of it is scary.

I’m in medicine. COVID-19 is one of the reasons I went into medicine. Not because of …

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Practice social distancing so we can #flattenthecurve

Why sometimes you need to be your family’s doctor

Physician
January 20, 2020

My uncle died last year. As physicians, we are all too familiar with death. Even if we are practicing primary care, we are touched by death and the line between life and death. That patient who had what statistically should’ve been acid reflux, but who you found to have stomach cancer. That breastfeeding mom who thought a little lump was a clogged milk duct, when it actually turned out to …

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Why sometimes you need to be your family’s doctor

The hands tell us the most about a cadaver

Physician
May 18, 2017

“OK, it is time to move on,” my professor claps his hands together and yells above the chatter.  We all look up from our Netter’s anatomy books and our cadavers.  The smell of formaldehyde burns my nose as the fluorescent lights flicker above.

“We have explored the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity.  It is now time to move onto the extremities, starting with the arms.  I want you to unwrap …

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The hands tell us the most about a cadaver

Why this physician can’t be her family’s doctor

Physician
January 27, 2017

The day I got into medical school, my uncle said to me, “You are going to be a doctor!  We finally have a doctor in the family.  You are going to take care of your uncle in his old age.”  Other family members echoed the same sentiment.  First doctor in the family.  Now, we will all have free medical advice.

As I progressed through medical school, then internship and residency, then …

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Why this physician can’t be her family’s doctor