10/15/2021 Being a physician can be really lonely, starting with the pre-med competition and continuing into residency and fellowship, and then practice. What’s the solution?
10/8/2021 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.
9/25/2021 Have you noticed how hard it is to access a psychiatrist, including child psychiatry? Therefore family doctors bear the brunt. Treat them both like gold and rubies.
8/31/2021 We often compare ourselves to others, especially how much money we are making. What about your values? What do YOU want?
8/18/2021 My colleagues said: “It’s like being in an abusive relationship.” “Medical school is traumatic.” I thought, 'Yeah, I guess so,' and moved on. Then two things happened.
7/15/2021 Dear Melissa,
I saw a patient in the ER and called a resident at a tertiary hospital who was breathtakingly rude. What should I do?
7/2/2021 Why can't I be effortlessly masterful, rattling off 20 differential diagnoses while intubating with one hand and installing chest tubes with the other, before gliding through a relaxing evening marathon?
6/10/2021 I'm doing something weird again. I'm working on a play based on my medical mystery, Terminally Ill. Why is this weird for an MD? For those of you who don't know me, this is out of the stratosphere.
5/14/2021 One of my mom friends introduced me to Grey's Anatomy. I watched a few seasons, but the medical inaccuracy bugged me. "I can't see the CT scan to make sure there's blood on it! They're holding it off to the side!"
