Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 6/15/2025
Here and queer
One night in undergrad, my friend mentioned a meeting for gay and bisexual students. ‘I'd like to go, but I don't know if I'm gay enough.’ - 5/29/2025
Art and medicine
When I was in undergrad, someone proposed a class where medical students would analyze a piece of writing and discuss how it applied to medicine. Our seminar professor said, ‘This class will be ignored.’ - 5/13/2025
All your life, you were wedded to ____
‘The doctor went for lunch,’ an emergency nurse told me. And a patient got angry. I said, 'Would you work 10 hours without eating or drinking?' - 3/23/2025
Would you like some spice with your medicine?
Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes considers Buddhist teachings about working with what you've got—including difficult colleagues. - 3/12/2025
Shoot the student down, or start crying: What kind of doctor are you?
What predicts intellectual humility? Not gender. Not left vs. right political leanings. Not years of education, which, if anything, might decrease it. - 2/13/2025
Meditation with Melissa
There are so many purported health benefits of meditation—but it can be tricky for doctors to slow down and actively do an activity that feels like doing nothing. Here's how I approach meditation. - 1/20/2025
A friendly reminder to stop killing people
Sometimes as a physician, you're the patient. But what can you do if things are going horribly wrong with your care and no one is listening to you? - 12/30/2024
Plane crash
In a small ER, as the only doctor, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes recalls taking control in a rare situation at her tiny hospital.
