Maureen Miller is a transfusion medicine pathologist and epidemiologist. 

4 Beatles playlists for your residency emotions

Physician
July 20, 2019

I recently graduated from residency and fellowship. The last week in-house was a second adolescence. My moods have been up and down. I’d giddily return a parking pass, then surrender IT access in tears. No one could feel this — my — moment as deeply, specifically, or correctly as I could. What word is there for that? There’s song.

Influenced by the new film Yesterday, I melodramatically equated my break-up with …

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4 Beatles playlists for your residency emotions

Why EMRs will not placate technology-hungry medical students

Tech
August 17, 2013

The first resident who really reamed me out on the wards was having trouble reading my handwriting. My handwriting became doctor-unreadable well before medical school, but how quaint. It was the beginning of my second month of clinical training, and hers of internship. She couldn’t follow our shared patient’s daily progress note. I didn’t tell the story in the right order. The format was wrong. Instead of noting only pertinent …

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Why EMRs will not placate technology-hungry medical students

Medical students: How to survive the 21st century medical school

Education
July 29, 2013

Congratulations on your admission to medical school! Your white coat ceremony is coming, and it’ll be grand. Your orientation leaders will suggest study skills, where to find scrubs and the best cheap supplements. Maybe more enlightened members of the faculty will remind you that medicine is really about the patients. If your parents are physicians, as so many medical students’ parents are—mine are not—they will reminisce about their own days …

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Medical students: How to survive the 21st century medical school