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Sep 30, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ariel Brown |Jiwon V. Park |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Kymberley Armstrong
Is Humanity Lost in Moments of Trauma? It’s one thing to make the choice to spend your career fighting to save lives; it’s another thing altogether to come face-to-face with the harsh reality of death. As a third-year medical student, my trauma surgery rotation highlighted that distinction. For all the patients we saved, there were also those who, despite the team’s best efforts, succumbed to their injuries amid trauma activations.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jiwon V. Park |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Kymberley Armstrong |Teresa Samson
How Xylazine Treatment Is Different From Other Drug EpidemicsSlowly rolling up the sleeve of his hoodie, a patient reveals his arm wound to me in the ED. An irregularly shaped, necrotic wound, extending from the wrist to the elbow, wraps around the patient’s arm. Dead, dark scabs are interspersed with areas of bright red flesh, as if a toxic chemical splattered over his arm.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Kymberley Armstrong |Teresa Samson |Rohana Motley White
As physicians, we often focus on honing our clinical skills, but navigating the complexities of contract negotiation is equally crucial for a successful and fulfilling career. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to make a career move, understanding how to negotiate effectively can significantly impact your professional and personal life. Negotiating a contract can be daunting, but it’s a critical skill every physician must master.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Kymberley Armstrong |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Teresa Samson |Rohana Motley White
Do ICU Patients Really Need to be NPO? We have all heard the old saying “food is medicine,” and that having a healthy diet can help prevent disease or improve symptoms of chronic illness. In the ICU, where I work, adequate nutrition is paramount to encourage wound healing and to prevent frailty — one of the largest predictors of outcomes in critically ill patients.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Mohini Dasari |Jenna Colturi |Lachlan Shiver |Kymberley Armstrong
Three months into my surgical fellowship I began having serious doubts about whether I could finish it. But it wasn’t until the end of month seven that I was able to deliver my resignation. I won’t go into details about how and why my fellowship wasn’t a good fit for me; I’ve written about this elsewhere. I want to reflect on the key pieces that made it possible for me to pull the trigger on leaving, which ended up being the best thing I could do for myself.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jenna Colturi |Lachlan Shiver |Kymberley Armstrong |Jenny Jones
A significant 34% of physicians believe medical training should be shorter, according to a Doximity poll of 3,411 physicians. This perspective is contrasted by 50% who feel that the current training length is appropriate, and 16% who would like longer training periods. Reducing the length of medical training could potentially address issues such as student-loan debt and clinician shortages.
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May 21, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Leila Haghighat |David Benjamin |Casey Paul Schukow |Kymberley Armstrong
Interdisciplinary collaboration is paramount to the nearly 10,000 heart and lung transplants performed worldwide annually. That was the unifying theme of this year’s International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) meeting. Held April 10–13 in Prague, the 44th Annual Meeting brought together international experts in pediatric and adult cardiology, pulmonology, anesthesiology, and cardiothoracic surgery.
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May 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | David Benjamin |Casey Paul Schukow |Kymberley Armstrong |Mallory Grove
There are more cancer types than there are organ systems, but, according to Hollywood, there is essentially just “Cancer.” Capital C. Period. Cancer-inflicted characters on the silver screen also primarily face just one outcome: Death. This usually follows a montage of chemotherapy treatments that leave movie stars bald and purple under the eyes. There is no targeted immunotherapy in Hollywood. No clinical trials. No genomic medicine.
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May 20, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Casey Paul Schukow |David Benjamin |Kymberley Armstrong |Mallory Grove
I read two articles recently that shook me. The first article was from the U.K. and it explored survey data comparing the effectiveness of common well-being interventions in 46,336 health care workers from 233 organizations. These interventions included assistance programs, counselors, mindfulness training, resilience/stress management training, and well-being apps.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Russell Hopp |Maria Luz Lara-Marquez |Kymberley Armstrong
Although every indication has Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) increasing in most areas of the world, especially in first world nations, the term EoE is inaccurate. Using the concept that EoE is more equivalent to “atopic dermatitis of the esophagus,” the true and complex nature of the pathophysiology is more reasonably understood.
