A Reflection and Book Review of Dr. Jessi Gold’s How Do You Feel For over twenty years, I’ve had a recurring nightmare: I’m back in medical training, and my patient is crashing. To save them, I must enter my medical orders into the Electronic Health Record (EHR). The only problem is, there are no open…
Leave a CommentOh wow! The International Thriller Writers’ publication, The Big Thrill, selected The Committee Will Kill You now as a recommended read of November 2023! THE BIG THRILL RECOMMENDS: THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW BY JL LYCETTE Recommended by Jonathan Davidson “‘The hospital had a saying—you came to work unless you were dead.’ “Noah Meier is a…
Comments closedI have a secret. It’s one I think many physicians and nurses share. Sometimes, when I’m stretched too thin — overbooked, hungry, tired, fielding yet another appeal to an insurance company in the middle of a clinic day — I find myself momentarily resenting the patients on my schedule. As soon as this happens, I…
Comments closedTL;DR: Vulnerability as a Superpower Last year, I had to renew my state medical license, a routine task. I completed the requisite online forms, paid the fees, clicked “submit,” and didn’t think about it again. Until the renewal didn’t come. As the deadline loomed nearer, and after several unreturned emails and phone calls, I finally…
Comments closedIn the transcendent memoir “In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope” pulmonary/critical care physician Rana Awdish is seven months pregnant when she develops sudden onset of excruciating abdominal pain. She senses that the problem is not obstetrical, but something else — something visceral. But instead of being whisked…
2 CommentsBellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital Bellevue. What images does the title bring to your mind? Ten Days in a Mad-House? Perhaps the most famous — and infamous — hospital in the United States. In this well-paced, engrossing history and biography of the storied institution, David Oshinsky lays out…
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