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Along the Road: A Perspective on Medical Training in a Pandemic

It feels odd to have family members in the hospital regularly again. My patient’s wife approaches cautiously; for a second I pretend not to see her. She looks like she wants to talk and I’m afraid she wants good news I can’t give, promises I can’t make, and time I don’t feel like I have. She wants time to tell me her loved one’s...

October 11, 2021

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Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

Where The Tulips Bloom

by Beatrice Preti, MD

Her grip on my hand is tight. Almost as tight as the elastic on the oxygen mask stretched across her face, digging furrows into her thin, sallow skin.

June 2, 2021

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Clinical, Featured, Oncology

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

Along the Road: A Perspective on Medical Training in a Pandemic

It feels odd to have family members in the hospital regularly again. My patient’s wife approaches cautiously; for a second I pretend not to see her. She looks like...

Health Policy, Opinions

Restoring American Aid for Yemeni Child Health

End-stage starvation is rare, but devastating. After exhausting its fat stores, the body breaks down its organs for energy: muscle, liver, kidney and finally the heart. The blood itself...

Clinical, Featured, Oncology

Where The Tulips Bloom

Her grip on my hand is tight. Almost as tight as the elastic on the oxygen mask stretched across her face, digging furrows into her thin, sallow skin.

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Life // Death

A flicker on the screen of the heartbeat, the first glimpse of my baby, I cry at the possibility of new life // An empty ultrasound, no heartbeat, a...

Featured, Opinions

When Assimilation Becomes Oppression: Rethinking the “Model Minority” Narrative

I am a first-generation Chinese American. And, amidst the tapestry of threads that form my identity (mother, wife, daughter, woman, doctor), it is the piece I have often prized...

Art & Poetry in Medicine, Featured

Stargazer

Graduation gown: shiny, matching cap / She looks up / With aspirations

Clinical, Featured, Pediatrics

Sparkle Shoes

“Every one of these patients should terrify you,” the fellow said. I thought he was just being dramatic.

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Pediatrics

Living with Congenital Heart Disease Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Patient-Physician Reflection

Thinking back to January 2020, I recalled the whispers throughout the hospital of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, mere minutes from my home institution....

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Selfish

I have a child, two months old / Who needs me, more than you need me. / I hear you crying, but it is her crying.

Clinical, Evidence-Based Medicine, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care

Early Palliative Care and End-of-Life Planning as a Primary Preventative Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has drastically increased the number of critically ill and dying patients presenting for hospitalized management of dyspnea, acute respiratory failure and other serious complications. The...

Clinical, Family Medicine, Featured, Health Policy, Opinions

Our Acts of Freedom: A Physician-Advocate’s Perspective

On the morning of January 6, I awoke ecstatic to the news of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s predicted wins in the Georgia run-off elections. To be frank,...

Clinical, Opinions, Psychiatry

A Reflection on Autonomy and Suicide in the Face of Multicultural Religious Beliefs

Above all else, do no harm. This is a basic tenet of a physician’s oath, but this oath does not always align with the religious and cultural beliefs of each...

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