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3 weeks ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Devika Rao |Neha Sahota |Jessica Reeves |Shannon Fang
I felt tears forming. I hastened out of the exam room, shielding my face from the medical student assigned to me. A mother of a patient had admonished me loudly for overstepping my bounds, accusing me of not knowing anything about her child. She pointed her finger at me, her eyes large and wide with anger. That evening, I received an email from the medical student: "Dr. Rao," he wrote, "I know today was hard, but I want you to know you're a fantastic physician.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Dinesh Arab |Matthew Scott |Francisco Torres |Jessica Reeves
Venture Capitalists Offered to Buy My Private Practice, But I Said NoThe money on the table was attractive. It was more than I had ever dreamed of. In the past, I had thought of selling the practice and riding off into the sunset. The delivery of medical care was changing, and most private cardiology practices were either being bought by private equity or merging with the hospital.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Matthew Scott |Francisco Torres |Jessica Reeves |Samantha Fernandes
The Most Important Day for Med Students Needs RethinkingAfter four years of hard work, you’ve finally made it to the most important day of your career: Match Day. The crowd around you is tense in anticipation of the unveiling moment. You feel like you could pass out, or maybe you just need to be sick. At the word “go,” you rip open your envelope, shocked to see your first choice residency listed there, right after “Congratulations, you have matched!” An intense wave of relief crashes over you.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Francisco Torres |Matthew Scott |Jessica Reeves |Samantha Fernandes
Do You Hear Your Patients or Just Treat Symptoms? I will never forget meeting one of my first patients in private practice. As I entered the treatment room, I saw an elderly gentleman, his eyes downcast. He looked so sad. As I consulted his chart, I saw a note that his wife had died only a month earlier, and I could then understand his demeanor. As a pain management physician, I performed my due diligence by completing a careful physical examination and ordering MRIs and X-rays.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Samantha Fernandes |Jessica Reeves |Tasia Isbell |Abraham Kim
I see her soul seeping out of her body. I widen my fingers and enlarge my hands to push it back in. However, I cannot get her soul to rejoin her body. My hands return soiled in her blood. This is the recurrent nightmare I have had this year which comes on the heels of failing the Complex Family Planning (CFP) subspecialty board exam.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jessica Reeves |Samantha Fernandes |Tasia Isbell |Abraham Kim
Regardless of how long you have been in medicine or the role you play on the team, you know things aren’t the way they used to be. How did we get here? We were trained that when we have questions, when we need some perspective or advice, we should go to our leaders for answers or guidance. “Leader” is a broad term and can mean a lot of things; in this case, the leader I suggest we turn to for answers is a non-medical professional.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jessica Reeves |Tasia Isbell |Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss
My Role As ‘The Clinician In The Family’Two really common clinical scenarios. First: male, late 60s, painless hematuria, referred to urology. Cystoscopy reveals lesion on bladder wall; stage I bladder cancer. Second: female, 70, unwitnessed fall, no prodromal symptoms. ED visit two days later, incidental finding of two cerebral aneurysms but otherwise normal workup, working diagnosis: syncope.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Danny Landau |Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jessica Reeves
You Shouldn't Choose Medicine 'Just Because'I am a hematologist-oncologist with more than 15 years of experience in a teaching hospital. I consistently ask the internal medicine residents I work with the same question: “What do you intend to do after completing your residency?” The answers I have received in recent years have become a source of concern.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jessica Reeves |Heather Kristin Schopper
We Need Human Physicians, Not AI, to Help Us Make Sense of ChaosIn recent years, and with indefatigable speed, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the proverbial examining room. AI can be used to craft educational materials, figure out complicated patterns of symptoms en route to diagnoses, eavesdrop on conversations while writing progress notes, and even act as a kind of mental health counselor. While there is certainly promise, there is plenty of peril.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jessica Reeves |Heather Kristin Schopper |Danielle Pigneri
Editor’s Note: This article by a Doximity Digital Health Fellow covers a new offering, Doximity GPT. As the sun set below the horizon, it cast an amber hue across the room where I stood beside my patient. It was his last day in the hospital, and he anxiously awaited his discharge instructions. However, a language barrier threatened to disrupt our connection. Then I remembered Doximity GPT and quickly navigated to it on my tablet.
