I’m here to tell you my story. Disclaimer: I’m an Emergency Physician. My story starts in the Emergency Department. In honor of patient confidentiality, this part of my story is fictional. Though this particular story never happened, though this particular…
Dr. Ashley Shreves completed medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine and emergency medicine residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. She then went on to complete a palliative medicine fellowship at Mount Sinai School of…
Dr. Nii-Daako Darko received both his D.O. and M.B.A. from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. He then completed his General Surgery residency training at the historic Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia through the Morehouse School of…
My daughter, Eliza, is five years old. She loves purple AND pink, riding horses, and, of course, unicorns. She is the oldest of my three, by one minute over her twin brother, and she was born with spina bifida. She…
“It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.” I tell myself this mantra so many times a day I’m thinking of making it my next tattoo. It’s okay leave a party early because a novel and bed sound better than mingling. It’s…
Implicit bias in medicine hinders women’s success, punishes them for having characteristics that are rewarded in men, and lauds men for being barely halfway decent human beings. All. The. Damn. Time. It’s pervasive and if you don’t think it’s that…
At the start of medical school, I received the diagnosis of a debilitating autoimmune illness. From there, I would eventually be taught most of my medical education, while being a patient in the hospital. I learned how to place difficult…
Dr. Kathleen Myers is a physician entrepreneur dedicated to rehumanizing the healthcare experience. Her goal in founding the medical scribe company Essia Health (formerly Scribes STAT) in 2011 was to help physicians not only survive the transition to electronic medical…
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