In celebration of Valentine’s Day this week, it seemed fitting to put together a post on the concept of love in medicine. Only…there’s not many of us out there writing on the topic. After a google search of “love in medicine” and “love and doctoring”, I found the following three posts, and have included one…
Comments closedWhen I first turned to writing as a method to cope with the stresses of my practice, I had no knowledge of the field of narrative medicine. In fact, I had been through 4 years of medical school, 3 years of residency, 3 years of subspecialty fellowship, and over a decade in the practice of…
Comments closedUpdated 03/14/2019 In my first year of oncology fellowship, our program director asked us an eye-opening question: what percentage of people with cancer survived 5 years or more? At that time, in 2003, the little-known answer was 60%. Fewer than half of us fellows, physicians in a subspecialty training program to devote our careers to…
Comments closedHere is an example of “meaningful use” from the clinic, and how meaningless it is for actual practice: Mr. X. is a man in his 80s who was cured of his cancer, but at what cost. The therapies which eradicated the cancer left him with permanent frailties and the loss of his independence. A family…
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