Michelle Finkel is an emergency physician and founder, Insider Medical Admissions.  She can be reached on Facebook, YouTube, and on Twitter @Insidermedical.

We got the new COVID vaccine. It was a whopping $191 per shot.

Conditions and Diseases
October 28, 2023

As emergency physicians, my husband and I were determined to protect ourselves, our teenagers, and society at-large with the latest, monovalent COVID vaccine, which the CDC recently recommended for every American 6 months and older.

I realized, though, we were in for turbulence when my 78-year-old mother arrived for her appointment at a national pharmacy chain only to be told they did not yet have the vaccine. …

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We got the new COVID vaccine. It was a whopping $191 per shot.

Why are COVID antibody tests of questionable relevance being marketed to the public?

Physician
August 15, 2020

It started mid-March with the sensation that I had cut one of my knuckles. Within two weeks, several fingers were swollen like sausages, and my fingertips had developed painful, burning spots. Soon thereafter, my husband noted one red, swollen toe. We are both emergency physicians, but we could not understand what was causing the symptoms, and it was not until a month later that we started to see Read more…

Why are COVID antibody tests of questionable relevance being marketed to the public?

Made mistakes? How to spin them for your medical school applications.

Medical Education
September 24, 2019

Despite more than a dozen years in medical school admissions consulting, I still clearly recall a bright advisee who had improved her grades considerably throughout her college career. But I, unfortunately, had a less than stellar freshman transcript. After calculating her AMCAS GPA with me, she lamented, “I feel like my grades are a criminal record.” In a twisted way, she was right — she couldn’t erase the grades.

But she …

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Made mistakes? How to spin them for your medical school applications.

Why physicians should have golden parachutes

Physician
August 28, 2019

Early into my career as an emergency physician, I was seated in the department with a colleague when I inquired about one of our co-workers I had not seen in a while. “Oh, she’s on the mommy track,” my colleague said and picked up another chart. To me, selecting a career path that sacrificed traditional professional advancement for more time to raise children was legitimate. My colleague’s pejorative “mommy track” …

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Why physicians should have golden parachutes

Why are emergency physicians burning out?

Physician
May 4, 2013

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Emergency physicians experience burnout at a rate of more than three times that of the average doctor and more than anyone else inside or outside of the medical field, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study surveyed over 7000 physicians in more than two dozen specialties and compared them with almost 3500 working adults …

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Why are emergency physicians burning out?