How To Quit Your Job (with romantic worst-case scenarios)
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If you feel sick with the prospect of being an employee for the next 20 to 30 years of your life then I hope that what you will read will put you a minute closer to showing the teeth to the crazy idea of scheduling the best years of your life to a time when your body is frail.
Free beer on Fridays is not enough freedom
I always thought to be ‘successful’ meant having a permanent job, earning 40...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: perubuesa Tags: career creativity featured happiness self improvement success 9-5 work week best self-improvement blogs death of 9-5 how to quit your job inspiration modern economy pickthebrain productivity tips Source Type: blogs
As a physician, you will fail at your job in these different ways. Learn from them.
To me, five years ago:
Right now you are 28, seated at the top of everything: chief resident of the entire pediatric department. You are in charge of 19 other interns and residents. You are resilient, kind, funny and determined. You seem to have the solution for everything, yet you don’t actually have the answer to anything. At least that’s how you’ll feel on most days in your new leadership role. As chief resident, you will repeatedly fail at your job in helping to train and educate medical students and interns/residents. In fact, you will also fail as a teacher and as a leader every month when you first become an a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/binh-phung" rel="tag" > Binh Phung, DO < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital Residency Source Type: blogs
July – It’s That Time of Year Again
It’s July.
It’s that time of year again.
Those involved in medical education — or just those that work at academic medical centers — know that this is the time of the year when brand new interns step into their roles as doctors.
Cue all the jokes about July being the worst time to be sick in a hospital.
During my chief resident year I was in charge of the first Journal Club session of the academic year. I assigned the residents an article about the July effect. You can find that article by here: Annals of Internal Medicine.
Jokes aside, I think the month of July is an exciting month to be involve...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - July 12, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life doctor july meded physician work Source Type: blogs
11 tips medical interns need to hear before they start
When I started my intern year, I was told that I was going to be sleep deprived and it was going to be the worst years of my life.
Yes, there were times I racked up a sleep debt, but it was for patient care. And because of the camaraderie and relationships I formed (both inside and outside the hospital), I will forever remember residency with a smile.
Rather than the words I heard, here are 11 things my-intern-self would rather hear:
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/canting-guo" rel="tag" > Canting Guo, MD < /a > Tags: Education Residency Source Type: blogs
Medical dark humor
For medical students and residents, dark humor represents a major defense mechanism. I often tell the new students and residents – you cannot make up these stories. The stories are actually sad. The patients often have serious disease and complications.
But we do laugh and retell the stories. I will not give examples here, because without context they actually are not that funny.
I also tell the students and interns that the stories do not travel well outside the medical peer groups.
Over the past 44 years since I started my clinical rotations, I quickly learned that the stories belong within our peer group...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 2, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
The law against giving cuts in the healthcare system
I'm very pleased that the Maharashtra government is passing a law which makes the payment of cuts, kickbacks, and commissions to doctors an offense for which they can be punished. I've always been vocal about the fact that kickbacks have corrupted the medical profession and damaged the doctor-patient relationship. These cuts impose a burden on the honest doctors who refuse to give kickbacks ; and helps bad doctors who are willing to take shortcuts to enrich themselves. In the long run, it hurts patients as well , because the cost is passed on to them, and they end up paying for these under the table bribes.A practise which...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Aging is a Medical Problem that Should be Addressed
Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation is the advocate and scientist at the center of a diverse network of people and organizations who, collectively, are changing the world when it comes to aging, medicine, and research. It wasn't so very long ago that the research community and its associated sources of funding were hostile towards any effort to consider the treatment of aging as a medical condition. Decades were lost to a scientific culture whose leading members wanted to distance themselves from "anti-aging" snake oil at any cost - including the sacrifice of any real possibility of progress. Change has come but...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 20, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Surgery Residency: Drop-Out Nation?
In the first decade of the 20th century, William Halsted---using principles he had learned from watching German surgeons---- implemented a new model of training general surgeons in America. Replacing the old journeyman/apprenticeship paradigm was an intensive, arduous, all-encompassing program that integrated basic science with bedside patient care, emphasized repetition and volume under the tutelage of master surgeons, and introduced responsibilities and skills in a gradual step wise manner. Resident surgeons basically spent 5 years of their lives living at hospitals, immersing themselves completely in the acqui...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 18, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Reflections from the other side: A commencement address
A commencement address to the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Class of 2017.
It is my great honor to give the commencement address for the UofL SOM class of 2017. Twenty-eight years ago, I graduated from medical school, and I remember the overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment in finishing medical school, the relief of never having to study the Krebs cycle again, the excitement of moving to a different city in a different state far from home to begin residency training, of having to start fresh to develop a whole new set of friends and colleagues, the thrill of finally becoming a real doctor balance...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kelly-m-mcmasters" rel="tag" > Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Advice for new 3rd year medical students and soon to be interns
Learning clinical medicine is difficult. It often seems overwhelming. I offer this advice, as I have for many years to students.
Assume that you will be confused and overwhelmed each time you start a rotation. Some rotations take longer before you feel comfortable. My specialty – Internal Medicine – is usually the most confusing when you start. If you feel like you are drinking from a fire hose, you are not alone. Amazingly, rotation after rotation, students start to feel comfortable in around week 3 or 4.
Maximize your learning from patients. I recommend keeping a notebook (either paper and pen o...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - June 5, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
The goal of medical education #meded
I started medical school in 1971 (yes 46 years ago). Hated the first two years, but loved the 3rd and 4th years and loved my residency.
My first month as a ward attending in Internal Medicine was January 1980. I probably have averaged over 100 days of teaching attending for the past 37 years.
What do our learners need? They need (and almost always want) to become excellent physicians. They want us to help them grow as clinicians.
Internal medicine is a very intellectually challenging specialty. We cover multiple organ dysfunctions. We learn more each year about how to best diagnosis and treat patients.
Our lear...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - May 29, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Defending the increase in duty hour limits
The ACGME recently formally increased its work-hour limits for resident physicians, a change that was widely covered in the press.|
This decision has also been significantly misreported. While it may seem like all residents will now work for longer hours, in reality, only first-year interns will be allowed to work longer 24-hour shifts, where the previous maximum was 16 — a limit adopted in 2011. Second year and up, the restrictions will not change: 24-hour shifts, no more often than every third day, with an 80 hour per week average which were the restrictions adopted in 2003.
Public opinion polls consistently c...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 26, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/vamsi-aribindi" rel="tag" > Vamsi Aribindi, MD < /a > Tags: Education Residency Source Type: blogs
Opioid prescribing: Doctors need to do a better job, but they can ’t do it alone
I recently took a three hour online course on something I learned to do when I was a medical student.
And I thought it was something I had been doing fairly well for the past 20 years.
New regulations have come down requiring all practitioners to take a CME-certified course on safe and effective management of opiates for acute and chronic pain. This has clearly come about in response to revised prescribing regulations and the tragic epidemic of opioid overdoses and misuse/overuse, so it’s not a bad thing to help us learn to do this better.
Long, long, (long) ago, when I was a medical student, I remember a jaded thir...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/fred-n-pelzman" rel="tag" > Fred N. Pelzman, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Pain management Source Type: blogs
PACS and the Grim Reaper
No, it ' s not what you think, so don ' t bring out your dead. You ' ll get the joke later on.I ' ve maintained this blog for over 12 years, believe it or not. Despite my years of whining about PACS, I still love the concept, and to varying degrees, many of the products out there. Some I can praise, some I complain bitterly about, and some I have left alone because of the more and more complex nature of the hats I ' m wearing in my old age.It is no exaggeration to say thatPACS has changed everything about what we do in Radiology. My First Law of PACS distills this to its essence:I. PACS IS the Radiology DepartmentThis...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - May 16, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
