Unsuccessful medical school applicants face a quandary. What to do next? A popular option has been the master’s degree in public health. Students figured it was a way to spend a year doing something “health-related.” They could take off for … Continue reading Put Down That MPH Application: How to Reapply to Medical School the Right Way
Hundreds of medical residents train in their specialties in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but since the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, the spigot of fresh physicians who knew that area’s patients well stopped. The county-run … Continue reading The U.S. underfunds medical residency programs, so local efforts are trying to fill the doctor gap
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. rarely see eye-to-eye across a spectrum of issues, and that’s only become more true since the 2016 election. But according to new research published in the BMJ, physicians don’t let partisan politics get in … Continue reading Health Buzz: Democrat, Republican Doctors Don’t Treat Patients Differently at End of Life
The Big Sick, the film comedian Kumail Nanjiani delivered with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, did not win Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards. That honor went to the searing and timely Get Out, and rightfully so, given the award is meant for stories that spring from the mind fully-formed, like the goddess Athena. The Big Sick is a more dramatic retelling of real life — Gordon’s battle with adult Still’s disease (also known as the scariest thing I saw in medical residency) — and Nanjiani’s awkward bonding with her parents — difficult enough without the object of your affection in a coma. But the film deserves … Continue reading The Big Sick: Best Film To Tell The Truth About Having a Sick Loved One
In your second or third year of residency or fellowship, your smartphone will suddenly start buzzing at all hours of the work day. When you answer, a hyperactive-sounding millennial will chirp at warp speed: “HiDr[yourname]! IjustwantedtoknowyouravailabilitycauseIhaveanamazingopportunity60milesfromChattanooga….” Continue reading How to Work with a Recruiter to Find a Job
Medical students who did not match into a residency position have a difficult, stressful, and uncertain time period ahead of them, thanks to overzealous funding of new medical schools, an influx of international medical graduates and specialty-switchers competing for positions, … Continue reading What To Do If You Did Not Match Into A Residency Position
Google is a company that likes to simplify tasks that used to be much bigger hassles, like reading maps, sharing documents, and finding old emails. Now, recognizing that health systems have not exactly jumped to help doctors with soul-crushing levels of daily data entry, Google wants to use speech recognition to help doctors get patient histories and plans into the electronic health record, or EHR. Continue reading Can Google save doctors and patients from the misery of electronic medical records?
