I think anyone who pursues subspecialty training after residency would be lying if they said that they didn’t consider their eventual lifestyle when making the decision to prolong their medical education.
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.
It is not surprising that almost half of all seniors living in long-term care have been diagnosed with depression. How should we, as physician caregivers, respond?
Chronic pain has no cure. The patients are often angry with us for failing them.
We struggle to keep them working. My heart used to sink when I saw a chronic pain patient on my list.
A patient who kept on wanting massage therapy for his chronic anxiety but wouldn’t consider meds or psychotherapy. That didn’t thrill Dr. Jassam—but then the patient’s requests went to something he had to say no to.
