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13 reasons why women should not be doctors?
In recent years, health care has made significant strides toward gender equality. But are these changes for the better? Let’s use facts to address the misconceptions and finally close the topic of women in medicine. 1. Female doctors make less money than men. As everyone knows, quality of care is directly proportional to revenue. 2. Female doctors cannot handle multiple patients. They are, after all, the undisputed queens of multitasking, a skill that is highly valuable in the medical profession! 3.
A hypothetical case of medical malpractice. This can be you.
A patient presents to the emergency room of a major local hospital with ulcers on the heels of both feet. The patient is more than 40 years old, smokes, and has hypertension but is not a diabetic. It is determined that the patient has peripheral artery disease. The patient is admitted to Dr. X’s service. Dr. X is a vascular surgeon with a special interest in endovascular devices for peripheral artery disease. However, Dr. X, for whatever reason, is out of the country. Dr. Y is covering.
20 reasons every resident should form a micro-corporation
The majority are wrong. Is it possible that the growing majority of doctors are mistaken in their decision to choose traditional employment? How is it that the most intelligent group of individuals on earth can be influenced to believe that being confined to traditional employment is in their best interest, especially when the burnout rate is approaching almost 60 percent? Don’t follow the herd.
The secrets of shoulder bones unveiled
An excerpt from Meet Skulle. This bone goes from the top of my sternum to the top of my shoulder. Can you name it? I have one on each side. Did you guess the clavicle? Cleaver Clavi is my collarbone. The fancy name for collarbone is the clavicle. You can feel your collarbone move when you raise your arm. This bone helps me move my shoulders so that I can swim far and fast. I have one on each side. Which bone is it? This bone is the scapula. The scapula is my shoulder blade.
Breaking point: the 5 reasons American doctors are dreaming of walking away from medicine
No one feels sorry for American doctors. They are some of the highest-paid in the world and spend their lives in the country with the highest nominal GDP in the world. But why is it so hard to find any doctors who actually like their job? Why do so many dream of walking away? Here are five reasons why. The electronic medical record (EMR) Technology is amazing, and the EMR is no exception. Gone are the days of hunting down old paper records, and access to patient-related data is at an all-time high.
Why do smart doctors sink money into silly investments?
People who’ve done what it takes to earn a medical degree are typically pretty special. Most doctors spend reasonably, invest wisely and incubate a healthy nest egg: a recipe for a comfortable retirement. But some doctors are profligate and foolishly fall prey to hare-brained financial schemes. On the outside, they seem just like their financially savvy brethren. But, neuroscientifically speaking, something is lurking under the surface of the silly-money cohort.
For students with test stress, medical schools leave a void
I’m writing this for my tribe of worriers and self-doubters, people for whom ever-present test stress is inextricable to the med school experience. Sure, every medical student becomes preoccupied fretting over exams to some degree. That’s part of what you sign up for. But our preoccupation is something greater than that—it towers over us and bullies us. It makes us cower in the corner, begging to be spared from harm.
3 reasons why smart doctors fail big exams
OK, quick — word association time. I say “doctor,” and you think what? “Smart,” right? And it’s true. Doctors are smart. But before you buy into the myth that every doctor has breezed through school and could fall out of bed with a #2 pencil and crush an exam without thinking about it, consider that over 1,100 internal medicine doctors fail their board exam every year. And that’s just one medical specialty.
8 reasons burned out doctors refuse help
Every day, I see and hear physicians sharing and complaining about how burned out they are. However, I am struck by the fact that while we coach our patients to get help when they are suffering, sick, depressed or in a state of hopelessness, we refuse to follow our own advice. Furthermore as physicians, when presented with potential avenues to alleviate our pain and suffering, we find reasons to be cynical and skeptical rather than looking at it as a valid possibility.
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