6/7/2024 Sure, Mother’s Day has passed this year but Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on the evolution of her feelings about working that day.
6/4/2024 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.
5/24/2024 The author reflects on the profound impact of a medical career—with gratitude.
4/15/2024 ‘I want to be a doctor so I can . . .’ How would you fill in that blank? asks Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes.
4/5/2024 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on the prevalence of bullying among physicians.
3/22/2024 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes is skeptical about the effectiveness of ‘zero tolerance’ signs in deterring inappropriate behaviour.
3/15/2024 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes grapples with guilt over the perceived imbalance between a demanding medical career and the time spent with her children.
2/20/2024 A colleague had an emotional moment over an AI program that significantly streamlined her charting process, saving about 90 minutes of time.
1/26/2024 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!
1/19/2024 Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.
11/28/2023 What if the guidelines we've come to rely on are based on flawed data?
11/14/2023 I stopped doing locums because I wanted to have children, but now they're big enough that I could travel again...
