Dr. Barbie Will See You Now, but Only If You’re a Pediatric Patient
Barbie can be a doctor, but she rarely specializes or works with adults, and she almost never meets clinical safety standards for clothing or personal protective equipment (PPE), a quantitative study found. Of 80 Barbie medical professional dolls, 53 (66%) worked with children as a pediatrician, pediatric dentist, or even a pediatric ophthalmologist, Katherine Klamer, […]
Battle of the Governors
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21 Tweets About The Germs Kids Come Home With That Are All Too Real
Kids’ getting sick: it’s a universal truth of parenting. You never know exactly when it’s going to happen, but you know with total certainty that it will. Day of a big work presentation? On the way to the airport for an international flight? A fever or a stomach bug can intrude on your lives at […]
Opinion | Never Ask Me to Be a Medical Expert Witness (Again)
Lazarus is an adjunct professor of psychiatry. Once, I agreed to be an expert witness. Never again! Not because I was grilled on the witness stand for several hours. Not because my qualifications were questioned. And certainly not because I was compensated poorly for my time. Rather, I don’t ever want to have to defend […]
Opinion | ‘This Has Never Been Shown Before in a Human’: What We Heard This Week
“This has never been shown before in a human.” — Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, on the successful pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant that assumed normal functioning in a brain-dead decedent. “High smoke days might be taking a toll on our brains.” — Boya Zhang, PhD, of […]
Opinion | Why the ‘Stages of Grief’ Need to Be Retired
Morse is a behavioral and developmental psychologist and thanatologist. I never had the honor to meet the famed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD (1926-2004), yet I have spent much of my career as a thanatologist getting to know her through her work on the five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (On Death and Dying, 1969). […]
Here’s What You Should Do Immediately After You Get A Sunburn
Eleganza via Getty Images While getting a sunburn should never be a goal, it does happen from time to time — especially for folks with fair skin. When spending time outside, it’s important to do what you can to avoid getting a sunburn. The skin damage that occurs can cause problems like skin aging and […]
Opinion | Will Obesity Drugs Change the Bariatric Surgery Landscape?
Mark Twain once said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” As a weight-loss surgeon for over 20 years, I have witnessed the new obesity medications with both anticipation and nostalgia. Just like bariatric surgery experienced a generation ago, we are now hearing the same refrains for obesity medications move from excitement to […]
Opinion | The Most Agony-Filled Scream I’ve Ever Heard Came in the Wake of a Shooting
I will never forget that scream. The loudest, most ear-splitting, and most agony-filled scream I have ever heard came from the mother of a young man shot with an assault rifle. I had just told her that we could not save his life — that her son was gone forever. My team and I had […]
Opinion | Fostering a New and Diverse Generation of Clinicians
As a medical student, I never saw myself as a future CEO or anything close. I was often the only Black person in the room in classes and rotations. After I became an attending, I spent a great deal of time and mental energy fitting in. Speaking up and having opinions were luxuries I couldn’t […]