The hardest lessons after training aren’t always in the OR or clinic.
🙏 I wrote this essay for anyone navigating their first year as an attending.
“Unseen Scars” in @JAMA_current
🔗https://t.co/0e09Zx1nb6
An inspiring distillation by Dr. Carol Aghajanian on modernizing clinical trial eligibility. No one should be denied access to a clinical trial based on social situation or mental health status. Let's break the cycle of copying and pasting inclusion/exclusion criteria! @SGO_org
Residency is one of the most physically and mentally taxing things I’ve ever done. Here is a phenomenal narrative medicine perspective by one of my very own attendings @journeycancer about protecting our own. Thank you for sharing your story, Drs. Boulay @NEJM#narrativemedicine
Please read my new essay in @TheLancet — When dignity meets evidence: https://t.co/HuCroWgGUf
There's a kind of knowledge practice we may call 'dignity-based practice'. It respects the dignity of marginalised knowers. It's been slow to take off, unlike 'evidence-based practice'.
“No sector of US health care is immune from the immoderate pursuit of profit, neither drug companies, nor insurers, nor hospitals, nor investors, nor physician practices” @donberwick https://t.co/PPTkF1R4dc
Last year, there were more students entering medical school whose families earned more than $250,000/year than there were from families earning less than $75k per year.
(25.6% vs. 24.1%; data/graphic from 2022 AAMC MSAR)
So proud of Tara Ahmadi’s recognition of one of the 19 recipients of Tufts 2022 Presidential Award for Civic Life. She may be our first triple @TuftsMedSchool jumbo: MS-Biomedical Sciences, MPH, and MD. Bursting with pride. @TuftsPH
The largest cumulative differences in income between male and female physicians are seen in ob/gyn (60%👩⚕️👩🏽⚕️👩🏿⚕️👩🏻⚕️) and orthopedics (6%👩🏽⚕️). Inclusion is insufficient to create workplaces where there is equity. Don't blame this canary, the coal mine is toxic.
https://t.co/cGE9dcfdg8
Homicide During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in the United States, 2018–2019. Homicide is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period in the United States #obgyn#OB https://t.co/s89paCbGHs
Our family lost a giant last night.
In Harris Berman's last days, even as his body failed, he never flagged in commitment. A young doc-in-training approached his bed, promised to be quick. Harris said, “I’m a medical educator. Take all the time you need.”
https://t.co/GO0q0msir3
"We teach them to gloat about the “advanced pathology” they see, rather than to investigate and take action to address the structural factors that lead to worse health outcomes and more advanced disease in people of color and people living in poverty."https://t.co/LEafwSilkR
I don’t mind being mistaken for a nurse as much as I mind how people talk to me when they think that I am.
Respect nurses. Respect techs. Respect everyone.