A Medical Student, a Dying JFK, and ‘Destiny’: What a Young Doctor Saw 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago, at the age of just 25, a fourth-year medical student named Joe Goldstrich helped colleagues treat the stricken president of the U.S. in a Dallas emergency department. Then he kept quiet for 3 decades. “I was afraid,” Goldstrich recalled. He finally spoke up in a 1993 book and opened up even more […]
Opinion | Violence in Healthcare: Why Are People So Angry?
Ho is an emergency physician. The first time I was assaulted in healthcare, I was a third-year medical student. An incarcerated, agitated patient handcuffed to a gurney rail in the emergency department fought so hard, the entire metal rail separated from the bed. The 6-foot piece of heavy steel would’ve gone flying into my skull […]
Opinion | There’s No Anki Card for Empathy
Hucko is an MD/MPH student. *Patient’s name has been changed As a medical student on my primary care rotation, I reviewed my next patient’s medical records. Ms. Jones* was a 47-year-old female with a past medical history of breast cancer. Upon entering the room, she appeared nervous and tense, and, unsurprisingly, was picking at her […]
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 […]
Opinion | Perverse Economies: Who Is Worth Saving?
Back when I was a medical student I learned a lesson about who was expendable. I was doing research for the liver transplant team at UCLA, one of the largest organ-transplant centers in the U.S., and one of the surgeons gave me an assignment: can you track how sick the patients are before they come […]
Opinion | Annual Check-Up: Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs
On February 16, 2022, medical student Jared Dashevsky shared his perspective on Mark Cuban’s new business endeavor, the Cost Plus Drug Company. As part of MedPage Today‘s review of the past year’s top events, Dashevsky follows up with his thoughts on how the company is doing nearly 1 year post-launch and where it may be […]
Opinion | ‘The Significance Is We’re Not Cows’: What We Heard This Week
“The significance is we’re not cows.” — Rainey Horwitz, MS, a medical student at St. Louis University School of Medicine, commenting on the fact there are actually an average of 10,280 nerve fibers in the clitoris, not the 8,000 previously assumed based on a study of cows. “Ali is a vitally important part of our […]
Opinion | Receiving Feedback and Critique Is a Complicated Art
In the mid-16th century, surgical education was that of a true apprenticeship. The student learned through direct observership and imitation of a skilled, elder surgeon. It wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that surgical education evolved into a formalized and structured program. William Osler, MD, CM, introduced the concepts of specialty clerkships and […]
Opinion | ‘I Don’t Have a Red Flag on My Application’: What We Heard This Week
“I don’t have a red flag on my application.” — Medical student Kaitlyn Thomas on how more students who don’t match to residency training program are taking to #medtwitter to support each other. “I think waning immunity is not something we all need to be concerned about.” — Jesse Erasmus, PhD, of the University of […]
Student researchers discover genes unique to humans in search for source of our evolutionary distinctiveness
A team of student researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice has discovered human microRNA genes not shared with any other primate species and which may have played an important role in the unique evolution of the human species. The students, under the direction of John Jay Professors Dr. Hunter R. Johnson and Dr. […]