A Big Deal
Our stories make us human and shape the doctors we become. Yet, we rarely let our pasts show from beneath our white coats. Sydney Katz reflects on how little trainees and attendings know about one an...
5 Jan 4min
Presence Beyond Language: A Medical Student's First Day in Clinic
Although discussions about language services like interpreters or translators, patient–provider concordance, and linguistic equity merit much greater consideration, I can offer one reflection: the hum...
15 Dec 20255min
Denatured
When I am in the hospital, there is at least a semblance of humanity. In a room with a patient, there is the possibility of the unexpected. Alone with my computer, there is only the ruthless pursuit o...
8 Dec 20254min
Picturing Practice as a Medical Student
As I brought the blade to the patient, I tried to infer the right depth, weight, and speed by matching to my pictured recollection of all the other incisions I had seen—an act, perhaps, akin to Ansel ...
1 Dec 20253min
Reflections After Testifying at an Asylum Hearing
My hope is that, by learning to recognize how physicians interface with injustice in systems early in their training, learners will be better prepared to navigate and, when necessary, defy these syste...
17 Nov 20256min
Trust the Process
In the years since this experience ... I have sought to encourage trainees and students to reorient their focus from patient outcomes as a referendum on their competency and to focus instead on the pr...
3 Nov 20254min
Transitioning Identities: The Dual Identities of Medical Student Parents
Discussing a new study into how medical student parents navigate their dual identities as physicians-in-training and parents are author Emily Carroll, MD, MEHP, Research in Medical Education Committee...
27 Okt 202543min
The "Uninsured" Patient
I never saw Andrew after that night, but I think of him often. I hope that our interaction played a small part in getting him the care he needed. Sujal Manohar reflects on the importance of digging...
6 Okt 20253min
