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Articles by Steven Rogoff
Matching Into Surgery: Advice from the 2022 Cycle
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I am grateful to have matched into orthopaedic surgery residency, especially as a DO. This year’s Match demonstrated increasing competitiveness for all surgical applicants. For orthopaedic surgery, there were 1,470 applicants for 875 positions, resulting in an overall 60% match rate. Among the 205 DO applicants, only 111, or 54%, were matched.
How Embracing My Shame Is Making Me a Better Doctor
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. One of my children’s favorite pastimes is itemizing my personal failings. And that sweltering August Sunday in 2021 holds pride of place in our family’s oral history, remembered and reexamined, elaborated and expanded, assuming grotesque proportions with each retelling.
Operating, Literally, In High-Stress Situations
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. In medical school, we are taught how to help bodies adapt and work through stressful situations. One of the most powerful lessons I learned in medical school was how to treat an acute ischemic stroke. When there is a blockage in a blood vessel in the brain, blood can no longer pass through and oxygenate the brain. If the blockage is not cleared in a timely fashion, we may lose all of these important things that make us, us.
My Partner of 20 Years Fired Me From My Own Clinic
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I grabbed the photo off the wall. The one of me as a surfer, not a doctor. The Indian Ocean’s azure plate. The pale sky. The bending wave like liquid glass before it cools. I stared at the crouching shape beneath the curl that was once me, seemingly in control despite the wave’s chaos and rage. Funny, the different versions of ourselves we wear like suits, the varied archetypes of our changing skins.
Why I Stopped Typing in Clinic
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Do you remember the first patient you ever interviewed? That feeling of knocking on the door and then catching your breath as you walk in and see a person lying in a hospital gown waiting for you. For me it was a few months into my first year of medical school. I had just finished struggling my way through first-year anatomy when my first patient interview was scheduled.
How Common Is It for Doctors to Switch Specialties?
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. A recent poll on the Doximity network shows that a fifth of physicians have changed their medical specialty at least once, underscoring notable fluidity within the profession. Another 6% are considering changing their specialty, though the majority of physicians (73%) have not changed specialties or expressed an intention to do so.
Self-Diagnosis in the Age of Precision Medicine
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Recently, the topic of self-diagnosis has reached a fever pitch. National news outlets have covered the phenomenon regularly over the last few years, publishing articles on individuals who say they have chronic lyme disease; teen girls who claim to have developed Tourette syndrome; and adults who self-report late-onset ADHD.
How to Be the Best Physician to a Jehovah's Witness
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. When I was 11 years old, we welcomed two Jehovah’s Witness women to my childhood apartment to lead a Bible study for a couple of years. My family was going through some difficult times financially, and my mother had nostalgia for the days when she first came to Columbus, Ohio and belonged to a Bible study group of entirely immigrant members.
His Chief Complaint Wasn’t Pain But A Broken Heart
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Empathy eludes me between midnight and dawn. I find the 3:00 hour uniquely cruel, numbers not meant to be seen by men like me. Too early to have logged enough sleep to “play-through” tomorrow. Too late to hope for enough sleep on the other side of whatever nonsense just walked through the door. In this case, said nonsense was a 43-year-old man whose chief complaint was bilateral ankle pain.
A Patient’s Broken Heart Captured Mine
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Storytelling is as old as humanity. So is doctoring. In fact, doctoring is, in large part, about collecting stories. It’s no coincidence that so many doctors were and are also writers: Atul Gawane, Paul Farmer, Abraham Verghese. As doctors, we enter a privileged space of trust where we are privy to the most intimate details of our patients’ lives, and as such, we are drawn naturally to telling their stories.
The Virtual Visit and What Was Lost
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. One of life’s great paradoxes is that it must be lived forward but can only be understood backward. Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish existentialist, is credited with that quote. He was 42 when he died.
You Can’t Learn About A Specialty From One Field Rotation
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. In early 2019, I made a job change — from my first job at a small, private nephrology practice, into working in the pulmonary department at a large hospital system. Though it was hard to leave that first job, I was going to be working with people that I knew and respected from my time working as a staff nurse years ago, and was going to have a more stable schedule.
Her Favorite Patient
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. “Come with me, Lachlan; we’re going to see my favorite patient.” It was my only day with Dr. Miller, a cardio-oncology fellow. After one of the cardiology physicians gave a rather engaging lecture the prior week, I had requested a day to shadow his oncology team. He’d accepted my request to shadow Dr. Miller with open arms, yet I entered the cancer hospital with a sense of trepidation.
Preparing for the Super Bowl With the LA Rams Team Physician
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. With the Super Bowl coming up this Sunday, Doximity reached out to Dr. Neal ElAttrache, head team physician for the Los Angeles Rams, to talk about the unique experience of being responsible for the health and safety of some of the best athletes in the country. The gist? Being a team physician is a “seven days per week job,” but one that can be so rewarding that sometimes it doesn’t feel quite like a job at all.
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. It might be a certain word. It might be a day of the week. It might even be an article of clothing or a pair of shoes — but whatever it is, whatever you’ve deemed “lucky,” I would venture a guess that nearly everyone in medicine has a superstition like yours. For me, it’s the socks. I’ve been on Team White Socks from the beginning. Some people can get away with crazy designs or colored compression socks, but not me.
Mistake-Based Medicine and the Harm of Self-Critique
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I’m fairly certain my colleagues don’t like me. It’s the sticky notes, I think. That, and my personality. But they’re interconnected, like DNA and the maladies of man. I stick them to everything. The sticky notes, that is. To their desks. To their chairs. Most commonly, to their charts.
The Slippery Slope Between the Patient's Truth and Ours
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. “If my baby’s meant to die, then that’s what God would want.” “I understand,” I told the young woman, the new mom, the little girl whom I could once make smile by blowing a glove into a balloon and drawing two eyes above its thumb-shaped nose. “Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as that.” “I don’t want my baby sliced open.
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