Advocate or Student?
It’s laughable, really, to seriously try and compare my three-and-a-half months of clinical experience with the training of actual physicians. I’d like to think, however, that being so green gives […]
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Constructive Criticism
I must admit that my recent experience blogging for the first time has been challenging . I struggle to strike the perfect balance when composing my entries. I sit down […]
Cellular Conundrum
Cell phones have become such a constant in our lives. I can hardly remember how I would pass the time without having a small cellular device to obsessively check upon […]
Superficial Vein Disease De-mystified
Superficial Vein Disease De-Mystified I still remember that night as a medicine intern in the ER when a surgical resident casually commented, “It’s really ironic that three of the most […]
Global Health News and Resources
Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy The World Bank Group has partnered with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to release six regional reports: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/policy-reports […]
What’s In a Smile?
At a recent conference, I was speaking about communication in the healthcare setting and suggested that the major premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, has a lot to tell us about how […]
Region 8 Spotlight
This fall, The University of Arizona COM-Phoenix’s AMWA branch is screening a video on the film “Branded,” a 45-minute documentary film about the realities of sex trafficking in Phoenix. Sex […]
The gift of a “bad patient”
Yesterday I received a call from a friend – a truly brilliant person who takes great responsibility for everything in her life. She researches nutrition and eats only healthy foods, […]
Humanizing Medicine: The Small Details
“Angelina Gomez,” the medical assistant hollers out to the crowded waiting room. As always, I cringe when I hear this. It sounds so harsh, so cattle-like. I know that the […]
A Female Attending
In the brief time between finishing step 1 and starting my third year, I thought about my first clerkship a lot. My father had bought me a book called “Surgery […]