Opinion | Prisoner First, Patient Second
Resnick is an internal medicine resident. Spencer is an internal medicine physician and assistant professor of medicine. As physicians at one of the largest public hospitals in the country, we have left some patient interactions feeling demoralized. This occurs most often when it is clear that medical interventions are incapable of overcoming the structural violence […]
Opinion | Medical Debt Is Killing Our Patients
Venkat is an emergency physician and state representative. As an emergency medicine resident in the early 2000s, I cared for a patient in her early 60s with back pain. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), approximately 16% of emergency department patients were uninsured. Often their issues were of low acuity, again […]
Opinion | What Matters Most to You as a Doctor?
Bair is a resident physician. Johnson is a medical oncologist. It is a well-known phenomenon that burnout — defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and apathy towards work — is endemic among physicians. While studies have demonstrated that a loss of meaning in one’s life and career increases susceptibility to burnout, it is still disheartening, though […]
Doctor on Board? Legal Do’s and Don’ts of Care Outside the Hospital
[embedded content] Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, is joined by medical ethicist Jacob Appel, MD, JD, to discuss the legalities of intervening in emergency situations outside of a medical setting. Following is a partial transcript (note errors are possible): Feinstein: My name is Max Feinstein and I’m an anesthesia resident at the Mount Sinai Hospital […]
Opinion | You Choose: Food or Medications?
The phone rings at 2 a.m. The resident doctor on call that night is contacted to discuss a Latinx patient who presented with seizures. He had missed his medication for about a week. He had recently been laid off and lost insurance coverage. He couldn’t afford to refill his eslicarbazepine acetate (Aptiom) prescription. This was […]
Fewer Wyoming Resident Deaths, Births Recorded in 2022 – Wyoming Department of Health
Fewer Wyoming Resident Deaths, Births Recorded in 2022 March 14, 2023 Fewer deaths, births, marriages and divorces were recorded among Wyoming residents in 2022 compared to the previous year according to official records held by Vital Statistics Services (VSS), which is part of the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH. Among Wyoming residents, there were 5,886 […]
Coaching program reduces burnout among resident physicians
A coaching program aimed at decreasing burnout among female resident physicians significantly reduced emotional exhaustion and imposter syndrome while increasing self-compassion over a six month period, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “Physician burnout is linked to increased errors, higher patient mortality rates, depression, suicidal ideation and high job turnover,” […]
A Day in the Life of a Doctor: Code Blue Emergency
[embedded content] Join medical resident Siobhan Deshauer, MD, for a night shift in the intensive care unit. She’ll be caring for critically ill patients, solving medical mysteries, intubating a patient who cannot breathe, and reacting to a code blue emergency. Following is a rough transcript (Note that errors are possible): Siobhan Deshauer, MD: Code blue, […]
Disabled Doctors Were Called Too ‘Weak’ To Be In Medicine. It’s Hurting The Entire System.
Diana Cejas was working as a resident physician at a New Orleans hospital when doctors discovered a cancerous tumor on her neck. The tumor had grown larger and more painful over time, eventually metastasizing to her lymph nodes. After Cejas had a successful surgery in July 2012 to remove the lymph nodes, she thought that […]