Medical Lifestyle Perspective

• Nursing Is Not Gardening How categorizing nurses can lead to missed opportunities in growth and development.
  Medscape Blogs, May 04, 2022
• Is the AMA Irrelevant or the Main Player? Books and articles expose the problems inside medicine but solutions don't seem to follow.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Take a Hike. It Saved My Career and It Just Might Save Yours Working during the COVID-19 pandemic in an ICU-stepdown, experiencing burnout, and the life lessons I learned.
  Medscape Blogs, May 03, 2022
• Infographic: Burnout and Depression Hit Physicians Hard Physicians reveal the impacts of burnout and depression on their work and personal lives, where they turn for help, and whether the issues affect patient care.
  Medscape, April 29, 2022
• The Work After Work We physicians are focused on fixing physician burnout. Maybe we should also be looking at what happens in the 'second shift' at home, Dr Jeffrey Benabio says in his column.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 29, 2022
• How Medical Training Can Help Students Process Patient Deaths Medical students learn to save lives, not how to respond to death. But med schools should place more emphasis on the mental health challenges that arise from coping with dying patients.
  Medscape Med Students, April 29, 2022
• She Survived Smallpox and Then Swayed Doctors Lady Mary Montagu helped bring inoculation to Britain, paving the way for the world's first vaccine.
  Medscape Blogs, April 29, 2022
• Tenure: A System Built on Coercion Academic medicine depends on us giving away our labor for free. Why do we keep doing it?
  Medscape Blogs, April 28, 2022
• Cure, Prevent, or Manage All Disease: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Bold Plan Is Already Working   Dr Eric Topol sits down with Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to talk about the next phase of their ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  Medscape, April 28, 2022
• The Mental Health Sacrifice of IMGs' Search for Perfection Medical students must be perfect in everything they do. But that pursuit of "perfection" can have devastating consequences.
  Medscape Blogs, April 26, 2022
• New Books on Medicine A few recommendations to fill your nightstand with interesting medicine-related books.
  Medscape Blogs, April 25, 2022
• Physician Well-Being: 4 Strategies That Can Make a Difference Multiple initiatives are needed to improve physician well-being, including improving the professional environment, promoting professional relationships, and life mentorship.
  Medscape Blogs, April 22, 2022
• The 'Privilege' of Unpaid Work in Academia: Friend or Foe The price of being unpaid: Tried and true tales from academia.
  Medscape Blogs, April 22, 2022
• Gendered Expectations of Physician Accessibility A research paper validates an oncologist's lived experience with gender-biased workloads, especially related to the EHR, as her daily clinic experience differed vastly from that of many of her male counterparts.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• From Unmatched to Top Pick: Highs and Lows of a Year in Limbo Not matching is no reason to be defeated. It can offer an opportunity to hone your medical interests, engage in research, learn more about yourself, and improve family relations.
  Medscape Med Students, April 20, 2022
• Health Quality: Protecting Patients and Clinicians From Medical Errors Medical errors take thousands of lives annually while imposing exorbitant economic costs. Designing more effective and human-centered approaches can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  Medscape Blogs, April 20, 2022
• 3 Novels You Must Read (For Fun) Before Graduating Medical School Reading for fun isn’t often on the top of our to-do lists as medical students. But with more free time, I’ve found a few medical novels that offered insights into medicine and patient care.
  Medscape Blogs, April 15, 2022
• What We Get Wrong About Match Day How can we celebrate happily matched graduates while still consoling others?
  Medscape Blogs, April 13, 2022
• With or Without Children: It Is None of Your Business As a physician in my thirties, people assume I have children -- or even worse, negatively judge me for not. What do I tell them? Why have I chosen this path? Find out why it really is nobody's business.
  Medscape Blogs, April 12, 2022
• SOAP: What to Expect and How to Survive My experience with Not Matching and an outline of what the newest SOAP timeline may look like in the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 08, 2022