Medicine has allowed me to intellectualize my mother’s illness
Somewhere late morning, after rounding on my first day of internship, I received a call from my sister. “She wants to kill herself. What do I do?” We had been through this before with our mother,...
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The blonde minority: Sexism is alive in medicine
While demographic data may suggest otherwise, I still consider myself a minority, albeit a less common one. I am a young woman in medicine, and I am a natural blonde. I barely qualify for a...
View ArticleWhy cancer still evokes fear
Nobody, it seems, is comfortable with death. In Haiti, where death and life are fluid concepts, where voodoo curses and ghosts are spoken of as fact rather than fiction, death is comfortably present....
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Consider the lipstick sign in your next physical exam
The lipstick sign is an underutilized physical examination finding which can assist in the evaluation and assessment of the elderly female patient. While poorly applied lipstick can result in...
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We need fewer paternalistic physicians and more maternal ones
I am a physician, but I also consider myself a mother hen. When I have a census of patients, I think of them as little chicks, perhaps old roosters, clucking hens, tender capons. Some are old, some...
View ArticleMedicine has allowed me to intellectualize my mother’s illness
Somewhere late morning, after rounding on my first day of internship, I received a call from my sister. “She wants to kill herself. What do I do?” We had been through this before with our mother,...
View ArticleThe blonde minority: Sexism is alive in medicine
While demographic data may suggest otherwise, I still consider myself a minority, albeit a less common one. I am a young woman in medicine, and I am a natural blonde. I barely qualify for a...
View ArticleWhy cancer still evokes fear
Nobody, it seems, is comfortable with death. In Haiti, where death and life are fluid concepts, where voodoo curses and ghosts are spoken of as fact rather than fiction, death is comfortably present....
View ArticleConsider the lipstick sign in your next physical exam
The lipstick sign is an underutilized physical examination finding which can assist in the evaluation and assessment of the elderly female patient. While poorly applied lipstick can result in...
View ArticleWe need fewer paternalistic physicians and more maternal ones
I am a physician, but I also consider myself a mother hen. When I have a census of patients, I think of them as little chicks, perhaps old roosters, clucking hens, tender capons. Some are old, some...
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