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Essential Versus Non-Essential in COVID-19: One Fellow’s Perspective

by Farah Khan, MD

I’m a soon-to-graduate allergy and immunology fellow and the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have catapulted every single physician into uncharted, and sometimes strange circumstances.

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Featured, Opinions

All That She Lost

by Vandana Kumar, MD

When I first met Rita, she didn’t make things easy. She fired a barrage of questions at me, punctuating her litany with the dreaded blow to every resident’s ego -- “Are you a student?” -- before slouching back on her bed, sweat glistening on her gray-streaked temples as though she had run a marathon.

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Clinical, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Opinions

Coronavirus Roulette: A Doctor’s Perspective from Pakistan

I was appointed to do the morning shift in the COVID ward of our respected hospital. The unit is a negative pressure area and, to us doctors, it is...

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Where I’m Meant To Be

As I enter rooms filled with aerosolized forms of the coronavirus, realizing that I am at high risk of catching this highly contagious disease, I set aside my fears...

Featured, Opinions

Essential Versus Non-Essential in COVID-19: One Fellow’s Perspective

I’m a soon-to-graduate allergy and immunology fellow and the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have catapulted every single physician into uncharted, and sometimes strange circumstances.

Housestaff Wellness

Survivor, Not a Victim: My Story of Sexual Assault

Content warning: The following article is about sexual assault and rape. I think it is time to be honest with myself and the world and say that I am...

Clinical, Surgery

The Same Day Surgery Waiting Room

Today, I made a two-year-old cry because I wanted to look into his eyes to rule out vision-threatening disease. The light was too bright, the lens was too close,...

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Meditations on Family

A collection of poems entitled "Meditations on Family."

Clinical, Featured, Intern Year, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

All That She Lost

When I first met Rita, she didn’t make things easy. She fired a barrage of questions at me, punctuating her litany with the dreaded blow to every resident’s ego...

Featured, Health Policy, Opinions

Tears for the Warriors Without Armor in the Fight Against COVID-19

It is difficult to put into words the level of frustration and despair that I have felt over the last few days watching the schizophrenic national response to this...

Clinical, Featured, Health Policy, Internal Medicine, Opinions

Facing the Inevitable: A Resident Physician’s Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic

As I check in on my patients each morning, I wonder if some will unexpectedly decompensate and die over the coming weeks. I think about myself and my co-residents...

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Psychiatry

Connecting Virtually: One Resident Physician’s COVID-19 Week

It was a beautiful late winter Sunday, and my husband and I decided to drive to Plum Island, in the quaint sea town of Newburyport just north of Boston,...

Clinical, Featured, Health Policy, Internal Medicine, Opinions

A View From the Frontline: COVID-19 and the UK Doctors’ Perspective

Earlier last week, one patient had been referred in from their family physician, and the onsite senior resident, Adam, had been the doctor to assess them. Symptoms were vague...

Clinical, Featured, Health Policy, Internal Medicine, Opinions

Routine Infection Prevention Will Not Contain COVID-19

As an internal medicine resident working at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, COVID-19 has taken over our workroom conversations as the number of new cases enters exponential growth. As...