Megana Dwarakanath

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What My Patients Taught Me About Death and Dying

Sep 21, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Lloyd D Holm |Peter Kim |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Megana Dwarakanath

What My Patients Taught Me About Death and DyingAll too often, physicians assume the teacher-student (physician-patient) teaching relationship is a one-way construct. Yet if we allow ourselves to be receptive to potential lessons, we can become the student, almost always to our advantage. Over the years, I have come to understand these “teaching moments” were not fully appreciated at the time.
Adolescents Are Allowed to Make Medical Decisions Alone. Where Does That Leave Parents?

Sep 19, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Megana Dwarakanath |Peter Kim |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Jenna Colturi

“Wouldn’t you want to know what medications your child is on?” a mother implored. It was my first week working in an addiction medicine clinic for justice-involved youth and I had recently started a young person on an antidepressant. The young person, over the age of 14, could consent confidentially for mental health services, and I was not permitted to discuss his mental health diagnosis or medications with his mother.
Thriving Through Transitions: Lessons from a Hospitalist's Journey

Sep 19, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Peter Kim |Megana Dwarakanath |Jenna Colturi

We all know life is in transition, and we all go through different changes during our careers, from personal to professional growth. We all strive for a reasonable work-life balance. Early in my career, after completing my residency training, I was discouraged by many of my mentors from pursuing a hospitalist career. The common agreement at the time was that hospital medicine was the recipe for burnout, and a fellowship offered me a path to a more sustainable career in medicine.
How Your Network Shapes Your Net Worth

Sep 19, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Peter Kim |Miguel Angel Villagra-Diaz |Megana Dwarakanath |Jenna Colturi

As a physician, have you ever noticed how the environment of a hospital or clinic rubs off on you? Think of senior doctors or mentors during your residency or early days of practice. Their approaches, diagnostic acumen, and patient interaction styles had a way of shaping your own. Think how others in your lifetime have influenced you. Their beliefs, strengths, and energy shape the way you think and act.
How My "Spidey Sense" Helps Me Save Patients

Sep 5, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Cindy Troiano |Matthew Allen |Thomas Gruber |Megana Dwarakanath

In summer 2023, Doximity ran our Women in Medicine essay contest. We are happy to announce this as the winning essay. “How did you figure that out—and so quickly?” one of the younger hospitalists asked. Like me, he was in the ED doing an admit. Our 412-bed rural Missouri hospital was the only one in a 90-mile radius, except for a few small critical access hospitals. Anyone seriously ill was brought to us. We had a variety of specialists not at those facilities.
7 Simple Ways Physicians Can Sharpen Their Digital Axe

Sep 5, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Matthew Allen |Thomas Gruber |Megana Dwarakanath |Cindy Troiano

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham LincolnChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence are a current hot topic in medicine. Whether you believe the hype or remain a skeptic, computers in all their forms will only become more important in the practice of medicine. As physicians, we need to be prepared.
Pediatric Subspecialty Training Needs an Overhaul

Jul 31, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Megana Dwarakanath |Yoo Jung Kim |Peter Kim |James Turner

Driving myself to a practice subspecialty exam, I wondered whether I had finally grown icy to the perennial medical training stick-more-than-carrot of board exams. I wondered why a subspecialty practice exam cost $160 and required proctoring at an outside site, even as my general boards practice exams were done without a fee, during resident school, and proctored by one of my attendings.
Is Nursing a Profession for Every Generation?

Mar 13, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Karen Henry |Megana Dwarakanath |Olgert Bardhi |James Turner

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I work in an academic medical center that encompasses a cornucopia of multiple generations. I will say upfront that I was born during the tail-end of the baby boomer generation. I have watched computers in health care move from “What do we do with those?” to now being integral as “I can’t believe we used to do all of our notes by hand!”I am age invisible.
Harm Reduction Is As Useful as “Do Not Harm”

Mar 13, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Megana Dwarakanath |Olgert Bardhi |James Turner |Robert Sidney Rosenson

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. “What can we do?” a colleague asked me after learning one of the young people seen in a youth shelter was using heroin. Despite television series readily portraying interventions as an ultimatum-laden confrontation, and even with our own department setting aside a day for buprenorphine waiver training, the question of “What can we do?” remains largely unanswered for the pediatric population.