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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

Nurses Are Leading the Strikes — Where Are the Physicians?

by Michael Pappas, MD

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 fighting, physicians have thus far remained on the sidelines of this struggle.

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Clinical, Family Medicine, Featured, Health Policy

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...

Clinical, Pathology, Poetry

My Allegiance

Collide, Rip, Shred / Microthrombi ahead / Schistocytes I discover

Clinical, Internal Medicine, Poetry

Poodle Blue

Like most times on call, the day had been busy. / I’d been running in circles, my head in a tizzy.

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine, Poetry

Mastectomy Shadows

I used to joke that after having my twin girls, my breasts no longer belonged to me. / Forget about possession, let’s talk about existence.