By Dr. Arushi Goel What is pride? What is the importance of being able to be comfortable in your own skin, to be accepted as you are? For centuries, members of the LGBTQIA+ community have fought for ...
By Dr. Talar Tejirian The medical field is considered to be intellectually challenging and demanding of time. Physicians are expected to be available for patient care with little consideration of the...
By Eanas Yassa Being a female surgeon - how do i get this right? Don’t be too happy, patients think you don’t understand the seriousness of their problem Don’t be too serious, patients think yo...
By Andrea Merrill In residency, we had a nightly event called “9 o’clock meal”. Born out of a former surgery resident threatening to expose our measly salary to the local newspaper, every nig...
By Rachael Sundland As a brand new baby intern, the prospect of starting off with a month of night call feels like someone has just handed you the keys to a cruise ship and asked you to sail across t...
By Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park When I was a trainee, my co-trainee was getting her manuscript finalized for submission, "It says the submission fee is $60." Sure, sixty dollars isn’t a lot of money ...
By Mary L. Brandt If you don’t work in an operating room, you may not be aware of the controversy going on about OR caps. To get right to the point – the surgeons think they should be allowed ...
#DearIntern, Welcome to one of the most wonderful vocations in the world. We have the ability to heal, to comfort, and to cure. It is both humbling and rewarding to walk into an operating room ...
Dear Pat, I am a junior general surgery resident rotating at a new hospital. No matter if I’m wearing my badge which says MD in large letters or my white coat which also says MD on it, patients a...
Dear Pat, My intern is a tall, white male. Every morning on rounds I introduce myself as the Chief Resident and state the roles of everyone on the team. However, patients continue to direct their q...