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  • 5/24/2024

    Most doctors are intelligent. Are you wise, too?

    The author reflects on the profound impact of a medical career—with gratitude.
  • 4/15/2024

    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.
  • 4/5/2024

    Dr. Bully

    Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on the prevalence of bullying among physicians.
  • 3/22/2024

    When the college greenlights firing a patient

    Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes is skeptical about the effectiveness of ‘zero tolerance’ signs in deterring inappropriate behaviour.
  • 3/15/2024

    Kid guilt

    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

    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.
  • 1/26/2024

    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!
  • 1/19/2024

    Quit

    Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.
  • 11/28/2023

    When the standard of care is wrong

    What if the guidelines we've come to rely on are based on flawed data?
  • 11/14/2023

    To locum or not to locum?

    I stopped doing locums because I wanted to have children, but now they're big enough that I could travel again...
  • 11/2/2023

    Dr. Innie and Dr. Outie

    Try reversing the amount of time you spend on your external vs. internal self for one week and see what happens.
  • 10/10/2023

    Health is finite . . . truly

    We run around thinking we're healthy, we're happy, and that's true, for X amount of time. If we're lucky, it's years, but for others it may only be minutes.
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