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Month: February 2021

The Heart Has a Back Door, and Other Lessons I Learned When I Left Medicine For a Year

**update 12/31/21 – This essay was the most read Op-Ed on Doximity of 2021! (originally published in Doximity’s Op-Med on 2/22/21 under the title I Left Medicine For a Year. Here’s What I Learned, and Why I’m Coming Back) Before COVID-19, I left the practice of medicine for what would turn out to become an…

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First Smiles and Second Opinions

*originally published online 12/24/20 in the International Journal of Academic Medicine as part of The women in medicine summit: An evolution of empowerment in Chicago, Illinois, October 9 and 10, 2020. (Perspective #4). “She didn’t even smile.” This was the startling reply to my open-ended question with which I had learned to start all second-opinion…

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