5/30/2025 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.’
5/14/2025 ‘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?'
5/7/2025 During tough times, how do you be ready if it all goes south?
3/24/2025 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes considers Buddhist teachings about working with what you've got—including difficult colleagues.
3/13/2025 What predicts intellectual humility? Not gender. Not left vs. right political leanings. Not years of education, which, if anything, might decrease it.
2/14/2025 There are so many purported health benefits of meditation—but it can be tricky for doctors to slow down and actively do an activity that feels like doing nothing. Here's how I approach meditation.
1/21/2025 Sometimes as a physician, you're the patient. But what can you do if things are going horribly wrong with your care and no one is listening to you?
12/31/2024 In a small ER, as the only doctor, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes recalls taking control in a rare situation at her tiny hospital.
11/4/2024 No, not the TV show. In medicine, we have an ‘L’ word we all dread.
10/11/2024 We crave security but we can’t try new things without risk—so how to strike the balance?
10/10/2024 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes writes that maybe the biggest mistake is losing friendship with other physicians.
9/26/2024 Among things Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes found while locuming in Newfoundland.
