Ann's Final Gift
Despite the emotional challenges that my anatomy course presented, I feel reaffirmed in my desire to pursue medicine and now understand the beautiful complexity of the human body in a way I never coul...
6 Jun 20223min
Blue Footprints
As tears seeped from the corners of her eyes and stained her cheeks, I felt powerless. I reached for her hand, wishing I could offer my bare human hand instead of an impersonal blue latex glove. Holdi...
23 Mai 20225min
Physicians Who Do Not Listen to Patients Shame Our Profession
The resident came into my room with one question and he got it answered. The rest was not his problem. But it was my problem. Arthur Garson Jr, clinical professor of health systems and population heal...
16 Mai 20225min
Blind Spots
Our patients should not be our blind spots. Even with the most thorough routines, I may not catch important clues—be it some subtle discomfort or altered affect—without keen observation, clues that ma...
9 Mai 20224min
Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents
Guests Lala Forrest and Joe Geraghty join host Toni Gallo to discuss the journal's Trainee Letters to the Editor feature. They highlight selected letters submitted in response to last year's call for ...
25 Apr 202247min
The Medical Student Turing Test
Our words and actions may strike others, or strike back at us, in unexpected ways. We must therefore always be ready to show our most human sides: to absorb surprising responses, lean into awkward mom...
11 Apr 20224min
The Heart of Generalism
In the following months, I started noticing a subtle change in the way my patients and the community saw me. I went from being called the doctor to our doctor. Sharon Reece, assistant professor in the...
4 Apr 20226min
Online Medical School: Unexpected Moments of Mentorship
These golden minutes were not only setting a realtime example of intersecting roles and responsibilities but opening a window into a version of mentorship unique to virtual platforms, a kind of role-m...
21 Mar 20224min
