Jennifer Lycette

Nov 17, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lycette |Jonathan Peters |Brittany Ladson |Erin Paterson

For over twenty years, I’ve had a recurring nightmare: I’m back in medical training, and my patient is crashing. To save them, I must enter my medical orders into the electronic health record (EHR). The only problem is, there are no open computers. I could give a verbal order in a real-life emergency, but those aren’t the rules in this nightmare world. I go from computer to computer, begging for someone to let me use theirs, but all I receive are cold shoulders—and colder stares.

Mar 30, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lycette |Peter Ubel |Monique Tello |Elizabeth Patton

Recently, on an average workday, my hand brushed against the small safety whistle clipped beside my ID badge. Most days, I don’t even remember the whistle is there, a “Happy Doctor’s Day” gift from a few years ago. I dutifully clipped it on, but I can’t say it makes me feel safer. I remember shrugging when I received it and thinking, well, it’s more practical than pizza. I also recall how it made me feel—expendable. But I didn’t dwell on that. I did what doctors always do, what we’re trained to do.

Feb 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lycette |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson

A fictional monologue. You’ve reached the prior authorization denial appeal line for insurance CEOs. Case number, please. I’m sorry you’ve had to hold for over an hour, but we can’t proceed if we don’t have your case number, a copy of your business degree on file, GMAT score, three letters of recommendation, the middle name of your dentist, and your high school transcript. Yes, I was only joking about the dentist! LOL! We’re all about fun here.

Jan 16, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Yongjia Wang |Jennifer Lycette |Michael Millenson |Robert Pearl

In 2020, the ICPerMed (International Consortium for Personalized Medicine) published a ten-year vision for how personalized medicine, a new form of medicine, has the potential to rebuild an equitable and accessible health care system by 2030. Precision or personalized medicines are drugs developed with genomic sequencing technologies, targeting the critical genes in specific types of cancer or genetic diseases.

Jan 6, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lycette |Julie Craig |Amanda Xi |Steven Zhang

A monologue in the style of America Ferrera’s character Gloria in the Barbie Movie (original script by Greta Gerwig). It is literally impossible to be a woman in medicine. You can be at the top of your class in medical school and residency, and yet you will never think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be infallible, but somehow, we’re made to feel it’s never enough. Even when we become attendings. As a woman in medicine, you have to be assertive but not too aggressive.