Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/7/2021
The happy village
Sometimes it's tough. Too many villagers! Too many other mayors calling me because their villages are overrun. Too many sick villagers. Not enough resources for my villagers. But this was a good week. - 9/24/2021
Stop blaming family doctors
Have you noticed how hard it is to access a psychiatrist, including child psychiatry? Therefore family doctors bear the brunt. Treat them both like gold and rubies. - 9/14/2021
Learning how to say no, just no!
Demands on doctors are constant. Learn to say it and mean it and forget about it. - 8/30/2021
Winning the values game
We often compare ourselves to others, especially how much money we are making. What about your values? What do YOU want? - 8/17/2021
Trauma, M.D.
My colleagues said: “It’s like being in an abusive relationship.” “Medical school is traumatic.” I thought, 'Yeah, I guess so,' and moved on. Then two things happened. - 7/14/2021
Dear Doctor Rude
Dear Melissa, I saw a patient in the ER and called a resident at a tertiary hospital who was breathtakingly rude. What should I do? - 7/1/2021
Revenge of the beaver
Why can't I be effortlessly masterful, rattling off 20 differential diagnoses while intubating with one hand and installing chest tubes with the other, before gliding through a relaxing evening marathon? - 6/16/2021
When your children are wiser than you
- 6/9/2021
Trying and flailing
I'm doing something weird again. I'm working on a play based on my medical mystery, Terminally Ill. Why is this weird for an MD? For those of you who don't know me, this is out of the stratosphere. - 5/13/2021
The medical show I'm still watching
One of my mom friends introduced me to Grey's Anatomy. I watched a few seasons, but the medical inaccuracy bugged me. "I can't see the CT scan to make sure there's blood on it! They're holding it off to the side!"
