Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/1/2025
You should brag
Physicians are socialized to be humble. We’re shamed for pride, especially as an individual. But who, exactly, does this serve? Physician pay keeps eroding while the cost of living—and patient anger—rises. - 9/22/2025
Lawsuits
A lawsuit re-enactment shows how trying to protect nurses—or please patients—can cloud judgment and put doctors at risk. - 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?'
