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1 week ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Sachin J Shah |Naveen Kumar Reddy |Jordan Frey |Chris van Eyck
“Hope.” That’s what the 74-year-old veteran told me when he was approved to receive lecanemab, a groundbreaking new therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. “I feel like I have it again.” As a neurologist and founding member of the San Francisco VA’s Advanced Alzheimer’s Therapeutics group, I’ve found that moments like this capture both the promise and peril medical innovations bring to my patients. With the advent of these therapies, I can finally offer something essential to my patients: optimism.
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2 months ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Chris van Eyck |Sarah Kim |Aditya Jain |Devika Rao
Every new administration brings with it broad, sweeping changes that affect us and our patients. As much as we like to separate politics and medicine, they are related. Politics affect our private lives, and our feelings about them can carry over to our professions. We are human, fallible, and imperfect.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Neal Kaushal |Michael Kirsch |Chris van Eyck
Leadership Skills Matter in MedicineI will never forget the time as a first-year medical student that the dean of my medical school called me into his office, looked me in the eye, and said, “Neal, you’re crazy.”During that time, the medical school curriculum was being revamped from the ground up. The leaders of the “curriculum committee” included school of medicine professors, clinical faculty, and the dean. But, there were no medical students.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Joy Westerman |Emily Johnson |Michael Kirsch |Chris van Eyck
In 2024, Op-Med published more than 400 essays from Doximity members, who shared the good, the bad, the sad, the funny, and everything else that comes with working in medicine. It is from this group of writers that we bring you this year’s winners of the Op-Med Awards.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Douglas I. Katz |Emily Johnson |Zachary G Schwam |Chris van Eyck
Challenging Cases, 'Dumb' AI, and Old Friends: Musings on the 2024 RSNA’s Annual MeetingIt was again — to borrow a term from my son’s favorite author, Dav Pilkey — a ‘supa’ busy week at the 2024 annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting. The conference was held, as usual, in Chicago at McCormick Place, starting the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Emily Johnson |Zachary G Schwam |Chris van Eyck |Dinesh Arab
As a young child, I resented when people would say that my hair was blonde — because blonde was associated with “dumb,” and I was a kid who thought of herself as the opposite. Growing up, I defined myself by my school performance. In kindergarten, I even cried the one day I had to stay home sick and later wrote a piece arguing against the existence of summer break.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Zachary G Schwam |Chris van Eyck |Dinesh Arab |Matthew Scott
We are in the midst of a so-called “ear infection” epidemic, which has plagued my practice since starting my job in New York City just over one year ago. While otitis media and otitis externa are in no short supply, I am inundated with patients who clearly have other pathology but are prescribed endless rounds of oral antibiotics and otic drops to no effect.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Chris van Eyck |Zachary G Schwam |Dinesh Arab |Matthew Scott
I have been a PA for more than 20 years. In that time, I have worked in multiple fields with various levels of autonomous practice, and have worked in several states with differing levels of restriction to my practice. I have rarely felt that I am a “dependent” practitioner. I have proven my value to my team throughout my career, and have not felt overly restricted in my role. However, there have been times when I felt that seemingly needless restrictions constrained me.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Joy Westerman |Corinne Carland |Soubhana Asif |Chris van Eyck
When uttering the word “poetry” to clinicians, expect some scoffs. In medicine, clinicians tend to think of language in terms of clinical documentation and reading in terms of scientific articles; thus, the pursuit of a poetic practice or education can feel unfounded at best, anathema to scientific thinking at worst.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Soubhana Asif |Corinne Carland |Chris van Eyck |Jennifer Boyle
The summer of 2015 was the first time I fasted while away from home. I had three roommates and no kitchen. Huddled in the foyer of my dorm room, I quietly ate a banana, a pack of small chocolate chip muffins, and Stacy’s Pita Chips along with some hummus as my sehri, a predawn meal for Muslims fasting during Ramadan. I would pray, go to class, study, work on my papers, and break my fast with something from the dining hall. The novelty of fasting alone for Ramadan quickly wore off. I missed my family.
