8/23/2022 Doctors just can’t keep going on this way, says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes.
8/9/2022 In travelling cross-country to make people laugh, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on physician burnout.
7/13/2022 As a writer at the Winnipeg Fringe, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes got billeted with a family. Why not a hotel? Being billeted made her feel ‘nurtured and cared’ for.
6/14/2022 Physicians feel like the public doesn’t care. We quietly wish each other a happy doctor’s day while nurses loudly and proudly celebrate an entire nursing week. We don’t complain, we don’t petition, we don’t write to politicians, we don’t march on parliament.
5/27/2022 In this safe space, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on what can go wrong—and sometimes does.
5/13/2022 One of the hardest things to learn as a practising physician, says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, is figuring out the point at which to stop and put on your own oxygen mask before you go on to save the others.
5/13/2022 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes shares why nurses make her life better, even when they don't get along.
4/7/2022 'Why do people have forms for referrals?,' one doctor asked. 'I personally hate them. I often make referrals and the form is a total hold up. It is often not downloadable to my EMR.' Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes says 'hear! hear!'
4/1/2022 Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes matches up the 6 different human archetypes with what kind of doctors they make.
3/10/2022 An FP said to Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes: 'I’m tired. I need two weeks to do nothing.' For doctors with kids, timing your time off with March Break is important but hasn't been so easy.
3/8/2022 Doctors are told not to speak up: “Stay in your lane,” commanded the NRA when trauma surgeons spoke up against gun violence.
2/15/2022 It was our sixth code in a week. This is unusually high at our small community hospital. Sometimes the ‘holes ’ lineup and things go very wrong.
