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Shining a Light on Medical Student and Resident Depression

by Alison Cesarz, MD

During my fourth year of medical school, I was completely unaware that I was suffering from clinical depression. Even now as I write this, I struggle to put my finger on how it all started. Was my appetite the first thing to go? Or the loss of enjoyment in socializing and sex? Maybe it was all three at once. It is truly too hard...

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Clinical, Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness, Intern Year, Psychiatry

Resident Wellness is a Lie (Part 3 of 3)

by Jennifer R. Bernstein

Last May, Evan matched into a fellowship that will take him across the country for a year, beginning in August. Because he’s a little bit off in the head, he chose subspecialty training that will likely entail even longer hours than residency at the same pay scale.

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Featured, GME, Health Policy, Housestaff Wellness, Opinions

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Poetry, Psychiatry

Healing in Relationship Lies

Illness lies hidden in our ways / Influenced by the unconscious gaze.

Clinical, GME, Opinions, Surgery

Resident Physicians as Leaders in TIME’S UP Healthcare: Changing the Narrative for the Next Generation

In 2019, sexual harassment and discrimination in medicine prevent patients from receiving the best possible care. We all deserve better. Not only do all who practice medicine and care...

Clinical, Featured, GME, Housestaff Wellness, Intern Year, Psychiatry

Shining a Light on Medical Student and Resident Depression

During my fourth year of medical school, I was completely unaware that I was suffering from clinical depression. Even now as I write this, I struggle to put my...

Featured, GME, Health Policy, Housestaff Wellness, Opinions

Resident Wellness is a Lie (Part 3 of 3)

Last May, Evan matched into a fellowship that will take him across the country for a year, beginning in August. Because he’s a little bit off in the head,...

Clinical, Family Medicine, Featured, Health Policy

Nurses Are Leading the Strikes — Where Are the Physicians?

Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are...

Clinical, Internal Medicine

Big Nails on Examination Day

I love working as a resident physician, but truly detest taking exams. However, life seems to only give you more of what you fear, so I recently found myself...

Clinical, OB/GYN, Poetry

T-Cell

“One” / It read. / Unassuming in black and white

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Poetry

A Second Home (2019)

Scared and frightened, we came in as interns / We had the knowledge, but we needed direction

Clinical, Family Medicine, Opinions

Two Oceans: Rape Culture in Medicine

The sky angry. The waters murky. The fear that at any moment a sudden undertow may drag you deeper into violent waters. A creature brushes your leg, friend or...

Clinical, Neurology, Poetry

I Seize

I seize. / With emotion, not motor.

Clinical, Poetry, Surgery

Pondering the Human Experience: A Quartet of Poems

To help a soul / To heal a wound / To hold a hand / To walk again

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Pediatrics, Poetry

A Story of Artistic Reclamation (2019)

Here I am, come and get me! A playful provocation we have all used with much more than literal meaning as a mantra. But going through the rigors, chills...