What happens when a dermatologist redefines “success” and “ambition” to include values outside of work
35th Birthday Reflections
10 years ago today I celebrated my 25th birthday. I was finishing a gap year doing a medical journalism fellowship…
Hello I’m Alive
Hi world, I’m still alive! It has been way too long since I updated my blog. To be honest with…
Medicine as a Family Friendly Profession
The @nytimes just published an article titled “How Medicine became the Stealth Family Friendly Profession” and it is so interesting…
Superheroes
This is a story I wrote back when I was a third year medical student on clinical rotations that I…
I’m alive!
As the title of the post says, I am indeed alive and well and I am sorry to have been…
Doctor-Patient Homicide in China and the US
Came across a super interesting article in The New Yorker last week, titled “Under the Knife – why Chinese patients are…
The calm before the storm
Tomorrow I start my internship year, which, for those of you who aren’t familiar with medicine, is the first year…
The Deceptive Salary of Doctors – an infographic
An often hotly debated topic in med-related forums is physician compensation. I’ve read countless articles written from a doctor’s…
The myth about physicians
In the past few days a lot of my classmates have been passing around a New York Times article titled…
Reflections on MedX
As I mentioned in the post below, I had the privilege of acting as the Global Access Host for Medicine…
Thick skin for physicians
An attending once told me, “You can’t please ’em all.” And it’s true. Sometimes in medicine, you just have to…