Recently, a male physician made public a common, inaccurate, and appalling opinion: Women are paid less, because they don’t want to work hard. The comment, in the September issue of the Dallas Medical Journal, asserts that women are paid less, because they see fewer...
Come August in Florida, no one would blame you for moving to Nantucket. By this point, your “sun’s out, buns out” summer enthusiasm has suffocated. What remains is meltingly passive-aggressive commentary about Boston’s expense and...
I was a 3rd year medical student in Brooklyn, New York. As an Indian immigrant with physician parents, I had experienced various aspects of healthcare from numerous perspectives. However, growing up in rural Pennsylvania, my parents’ patient population was much...
Spoiler alert! I recently started watching Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale after continuing to hear rave reviews about the show. It is based on the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood. I just started watching this weekend and am now caught up to season 2; it’s that good....
When you envision the classic American TV doctor from yesteryear, what do you see? An older man, with silver gray hair, dark suit, white coat and doctor’s bag right? He was a solo practitioner who worked long hours, made house calls, neglected his home life and...
It’s a Sunday evening in a local South Texas Emergency Room with the expected normal ER traffic for a weekend evening. Lots of simple traumas for a weekend: ankle sprains, abrasions, lacerations, simple falls as well as common URI (upper respiratory infection)...
