Sometimes it takes a wake-up call to slow us down. For me, it happened in the form of a cancer - which is why I share information on self-care and work-life balance so you hopefully don't get to the point where I was before making changes. For my recent guest on the Lean Out Podcast, Dr. …
You Never Hear Doctors Say, "I Can’t Come In Today, I’m Sick."
The surgery resident was seeing stars as she sutured the wound. "I need a chair," she whispered, slowly sitting back into the air behind her (where no chair currently existed). The nurse caught her, and I ran over. "I'm just not feeling well. I threw up earlier this morning." I gave her an …
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What Anesthesiology Residents Defined As Effective Teaching Applies to Everyone
The journal Anesthesiology recently published an interesting article in their annual January 2014 Education Edition. It's called Resident Assessment of Better-Than and Worse-Than-Average Clinical Teaching, by Bishr et al. The authors reviewed a year's' worth of resident reviews of all faculty …
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I’m not a resident anymore; I’m the boss, and I’m cancelling your case.
The patient had arrived for a urology procedure with a blood glucose in the 400's. He suffered from a recent stomach bug and had gotten off schedule with administration of his meds. While his GI symptoms had subsided, he was feeling crappy overall. I decided to cancel his case and went about …
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Have you lost the ability to be professional?
What does it mean to be a professional? And how do we maintain our professionalism at a time when things such as stress, burnout, and caregiver fatigue can degrade our motivation? In medical school, you learn early that one of the best ways to remember important information is to attach an …
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: 2 Souls Intertwined
Last week, Dr. Abraham Verghese gave a speech titled similar to that above as part of the Tanner Lecture Series. I was lucky to spy the ad in the free local rag at the coffee shop and then lucky enough to score one of the last tickets! Verghese is the author of the popular Cutting for Stone as …
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