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!"
