Helia Hosseini

Jul 11, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Nina Maitra |Avneet Soin |Brian B Gilmer |Helia Hosseini

We've all experienced the frustrations of working with a patient who doesn't take their prescribed medications. We feel like begging and pleading to get them to take their medicines to save them from their own downfall. We've seen what happens when people don't take their meds, and we know that the complications are avoidable if people would just take. Their. Meds.

Jul 10, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Avneet Soin |Brian B Gilmer |Helia Hosseini |Lauro Amezcua-Patino

About five years ago, I remember sitting in morning rounds during my third-year inpatient psychiatry rotation. I heard them mention a new patient, an older woman with a traditionally Punjabi last name, which caught my attention. “She wears a headscarf and doesn’t speak any English. Good luck.” Everyone chuckled, some rolled their eyes. Suddenly, I felt my throat tighten and my muscles tense.

Jul 8, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Helia Hosseini |Brian B Gilmer |Lauro Amezcua-Patino |Sonia Singh

It’s a beautiful summer day in Santa Monica. I’m sitting in the backyard of Dr. G’s house, an MD/PhD turned entrepreneur who proofread my medical school application and helped me prepare for my interviews. I’m an Iranian immigrant who at that time had been in the U.S. for two years, and my premed advisors were Reddit and Student Doctor Network users for the most part. So, I would absorb any mentorship from a live human being like a sponge.

Jul 8, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Helia Hosseini |Lauro Amezcua-Patino |Sonia Singh

“I’m hanging up my spurs.”It was cocktail hour at the fellowship reunion meeting. But the words were not from my mentor at the end of a long and storied career. The words were from another alumni who was my age. I was shocked. He was quietly leaving clinical practice. His hospital had some administrative changes, a merger, and somewhere in the process, they closed his entire department.