It doesn’t take long in the practice of medicine, indeed in the training for the practice of medicine, to learn humility. To understand our limits in our understanding of a disease process, in our abilities to heal patients, and in our own importance in the grand scheme of things. Yet as physicians and as experts […]
Hooding a Medical School Graduate
Last week I attended graduation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago where I had the honour of hooding my cousin during the Special Hooding Ceremony. Our grandfather, now departed, a champion of academic excellence, would have been so proud. Later at the Graduation Ceremony itself I was reminded of the high […]
Nobel Peace Prize Recognizes Sexual Violence
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of armed conflict and I couldn’t be more elated. Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege have “both put their own personal security at risk by courageously combatting war […]
The Pay Gap for Women in Medicine
The now-infamous comment about the pay gap for women in medicine in the Dallas Medical Journal unfortunately represents a belief not as rare as one would hope. It is the belief that the gender pay gap in medicine is deserved. While I do agree that if one works fewer hours one should expect to be […]
Secretly Recording Doctors
Increasingly, I realize that I’m being audio-recorded when I’m interacting with my patients at their hospital bedside. I say realize, because the majority of the time I’m never asked. Sometimes it’s the patient recording. Other times it’s a family member in the room. In both scenarios I get upset. I feel violated. When it’s the […]