Ben Reinking

Sep 27, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Natalie Enyedi |David Coulter |Ben Reinking

The term “organ harvesting,” once a misnomer for organ procurement after organ donation, echoes in the phrase “procedure harvesting,” which could be an inadvertent misnomer for procedure procurement following procedure donation. Who knows if some may even suggest preemptive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation when cardiac arrest seems imminent during an elective non-cardiac procedure?

Sep 26, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Ben Reinking |Paige Budde |Dawn Baker |Brittany Ladson

The student I worked with quietly said, “Dr. Reinking, I think you multiplied wrong.” My shoulders tensed slightly, and my stomach dropped. We had just spent the better part of an hour working through a feeding and fluid plan with a patient’s family. The child had recently undergone open heart surgery. Feeding intolerance is relatively common after surgery and in children with congenital heart disease. Fluid management is also important after heart surgery.

Sep 4, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Ben Reinking |Casey Paul Schukow |Naomi Tweyo Nkinsi |Judy Salz

It smelled like hay, molasses, and mice. I really hoped there wasn’t a mouse in the oat bin again. It was early fall, and the pasture was eaten to the ground, so the horses received “special oats” with some molasses and corn added so they could head into the winter with extra fat stores. They loved it. So did the mice. I lifted the lid. No mice. Phew. I filled the buckets with oats and went outside, met my grandpa, and fed the horses. I loved Saturdays.

Aug 21, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong |Ben Reinking

As I led small group sessions during our medical school’s recent orientation, I was struck by the nervous excitement and hope radiating from our new first-year students. Their enthusiasm was palpable yet tinged with apprehension about the challenging journey ahead. Two themes emerged from our discussions. The first was a desire to dive in and tackle challenges ahead. As one student stated, “Enough talking, let’s start doing.” The second was a hope to maintain some semblance of work-life balance.