To be a third year medical student is to enter a world that few understand. The pressure of constant evaluation, the stress of doing well in the field which you want to enter, and the fear of making a mistake often haunt the very long days and night which characterize the most physically exhausting year of medical school.
Yet quite frequently as I move through this year I find myself feeling …
A heartfelt thank you to my patients
As Americans, we love to associate with groups. More than that — we love to plant ourselves in a group, stand firmly in our decision, and then adamantly refuse to budge or to see the other party’s perspective.
Pro-life. Pro-choice. Democrat. Republican. Pro-Obamacare. Anti-Obamacare.
I suppose for all of us, myself included, it is easy to identify with our group of choice when we are sitting at home watching or reading our …
It is time for physicians to stop making the easy decisions
Perhaps one of our greatest assets and strongest detriments in medicine is our ability to look at a patient and make a quick, thorough assessment of his or her condition and state of distress. Certainly, a good clinician is able to triage and provide greater quality of care in the emergency room if he or she can use the intangibles of a patient’s presentation to provide them better quality of …
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