Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 8/26/2025
In praise of age
A lot of the time, we get told we don’t matter. Seniors are too old, guys are useless, women are lesser, children are fools. - 8/11/2025
When patients insult your pregnancy
What do you say when a patient suggests you're abandoning them because you'll be taking time off after giving birth? I've got some ideas, some sassy, some serious. - 7/31/2025
Scammers, scammers everywhere
Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes argues that doctors have high income and are trusting—thus a magnet for scammers. - 7/1/2025
That time I could've been taken hostage in the ER
Night shift. Always a more dangerous time. Fewer staff around. Lights dim. Patients sleeping. - 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.
