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Facing the Consequences of the Pandemic as an Oncologist-in-Training

by Mariam Saad

For the first time in history, a pandemic has shut down the entire globe. COVID-19 has affected our lives in many ways, including significantly impacting health care services. Many people, sensing an unseen danger looming in the air, have become increasingly afraid to visit their primary care physicians, and we are now discovering the catastrophic consequences of this delay.

September 10, 2020

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Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

Rethinking Residency Recruitment and Social Media Presence in a Pandemic

by Melanie Watt, MD

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretched into the late spring months, the ACGME made the recommendation to hold all residency and fellowship recruitment for the 2021 Match cycle virtually. At University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, preparations began.

August 10, 2020

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Featured, GME

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

Facing the Consequences of the Pandemic as an Oncologist-in-Training

For the first time in history, a pandemic has shut down the entire globe. COVID-19 has affected our lives in many ways, including significantly impacting health care services. Many...

Rethinking Residency Recruitment and Social Media Presence in a Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretched into the late spring months, the ACGME made the recommendation to hold all residency and fellowship recruitment for the 2021 Match cycle virtually. At...

Featured, Opinions

In COVID We Mistrust

In the pandemic’s wake, we witnessed the explosion of viral social media content such as Plandemic, an alternate exaggerated narrative which sought to perpetuate the types of claims one...

Art & Poetry in Medicine

Meditations on Medicine

A collection of poems entitled "Meditations on Medicine."

Featured, Health Policy, Opinions

Medicine-Pediatrics Residents Call for Anti-Racism in Health Care

Recent events have highlighted a systemic problem within our world, our country, our state, and our community. People of color fight an uphill battle in every facet of life,...

Featured, Opinions

Your Voice Has Power

On June 1, I worked a shift in the trauma intensive care unit as riots and looting continued outside and the National Guard patrolled the streets. A group of...

Clinical, Featured, Housestaff Wellness, Psychiatry

COVID-19 Highlights Longstanding Discrimination Against Minority Physicians

I constantly have to deal with racism and homophobia. In Boston. In America. When I leave work and go home, I have to prepare to deal with the same...

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

Witness

This elderly yet jolly gentleman answers our unending questions about his physical health, but it is his question to us that makes me pause. Do I have time for...

Clinical, Featured, Internal Medicine

The Doll

No one had told her how difficult the fight after COVID would be. Of course, few in her community had lived to tell the tale. And then again, precious...

Clinical, Family Medicine, Opinions, Psychiatry

Telemedicine in a Terrible Time: A Resident Physician’s Perspective

“Hello? Can you hear me?” Tightly holding the phone, I heard only an old man’s distant yelling and the shattering of dishes being thrown against the wall.

Clinical, Family Medicine, Featured, Housestaff Wellness

Patient Zero: Doing My Part From Home While Battling COVID-19

My husband Tom isn't afraid of anything; strapping on a bulletproof vest every day for work will do that to a man. Tom wasn't scared until I couldn't breathe.

Clinical, Housestaff Wellness, Psychiatry

A Tale of Three Continents: A Resident Physician Perspective on the Pandemic

“The United States reports first death from COVID-19 in Washington State.” It was the end of February as I glanced over this news alert. For the past month, my...