Pooja Yerramilli, MD
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Conditions
It has been a long time since we’ve been known simply as doctors. But, in the midst of this global pandemic, we return to the essence of our jobs: we provide care for people. Before we differentiated into various medical…
It has been a long time since we’ve been known simply as doctors. But, in the midst of this global pandemic, we return to the essence of our jobs: we provide care for people. Before we differentiated into various medical specialties, we shared a commitment to alleviating patients’ suffering. We swore the Hippocratic Oath.
Today, we are called to make another shared commitment. Our families and communities are facing a threat …
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Medicine is a team sport, and we will only beat this pandemic if we work together
Conditions
Upon walking through the revolving door that guards the hospital’s main entrance, I was ushered by security staff to join the queues of my peers, also seeking passage to their respective posts. “The new policy,” the officer explained, examining my…
Upon walking through the revolving door that guards the hospital’s main entrance, I was ushered by security staff to join the queues of my peers, also seeking passage to their respective posts.
“The new policy,” the officer explained, examining my hospital ID to confirm that I am, indeed, an employee. Visitors are no longer allowed.
“Please sanitize your hands,” another instructed me, as he pointed to the neat rows of surgical masks …
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I’m a physician and I’m not a hero
Conditions
"Are you my doctor?" Mary* asked me, as I, a resident physician, approached her bed. "Yes, I am one of the primary medical doctors taking care of you here," I confirmed with my standard, pre-scripted introduction — with little appreciation…
“Are you my doctor?” Mary* asked me, as I, a resident physician, approached her bed.
“Yes, I am one of the primary medical doctors taking care of you here,” I confirmed with my standard, pre-scripted introduction — with little appreciation of the implications of these words.
Mary was a 30-something-year-old woman who transferred to our hospital due to worsening alcohol-related liver disease. She had struggled with anxiety and depression since her teenage …
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6 months of probation: Taking care of someone with alcohol-related liver disease
Education
“All of you want to help people and save the world now. But, by the end of medical school, only two of you -- if we’re lucky -- will remain idealistic.” Within the first three days of medical school, I…
“All of you want to help people and save the world now. But, by the end of medical school, only two of you — if we’re lucky — will remain idealistic.”
Within the first three days of medical school, I had heard three different lecturers tell me that I would lose my compassion and empathy. By the end of the first three weeks, that number had grown to six. During the …
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How medical students can change the culture of medicine
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