Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 6/6/2024
Happy Mother’s Day! (Sorry, internist)
Sure, Mother’s Day has passed this year but Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on the evolution of her feelings about working that day. - 6/3/2024
The ableist doctor
As a clinical clerk, it hadn’t occurred to me that my life would be limited by things like illness, even though my job was seeing sick people. - 5/23/2024
Most doctors are intelligent. Are you wise, too?
The author reflects on the profound impact of a medical career—with gratitude. - 4/14/2024
I want to be a doctor because (taking off the golden handcuffs)
‘I want to be a doctor so I can . . .’ How would you fill in that blank? asks Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes. - 3/21/2024
When the college greenlights firing a patient
Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes is skeptical about the effectiveness of ‘zero tolerance’ signs in deterring inappropriate behaviour. - 2/19/2024
Charting: chore or charm?
A colleague had an emotional moment over an AI program that significantly streamlined her charting process, saving about 90 minutes of time. - 1/25/2024
Just for pun: Some much-needed humour in medicine
Imagine you're at the operating table, and someone on the surgical team demands you come up with a clever pun relating to the vital organs you have before you! - 1/18/2024
Quit
Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal. - 11/27/2023
When the standard of care is wrong
What if the guidelines we've come to rely on are based on flawed data?
