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Jul 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Lisa Belisle |Melina Tessier |Jessica Reeves |Jordan Frey
As a family physician with decades of experience caring for underserved communities, I have seen firsthand the challenges we face in providing high-quality, accessible care to our patients. Limited resources, geographic isolation, and a chronic shortage of clinicians often force us to do more with less — treating problems that may seem outside the purview of our specialty.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Melina Tessier |Jessica Reeves |Jordan Frey |Suzanne Baga
Nearly two-thirds of physicians (63%) would not want their children to pursue a career in medicine, according to a poll of 7,590 physicians on Doximity. Among all physicians surveyed, 39% say that they would “probably not” not want their children to pursue medicine, while another 24% say they would “definitely not” want their children to pursue medicine. Overall, physicians were 2% less likely to want their children to pursue medicine in 2023, compared with previous Doximity poll results.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Heather Kristin Schopper |Melina Tessier
Expanding a family can be a complicated process for patients, even for patients who are doctors themselves. Briana Rudick, MD is the director of the Columbia University Fertility Center's Third Party Reproduction Program. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Doximity asked Dr. Rudick to share how the field has evolved and what women physicians should consider about their own fertility.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Brian B Gilmer |Heather Kristin Schopper |Melina Tessier |paul pin
A few weeks ago I saw an old friend of mine from medical school. Not in the expected way of a text message, or a social media post, but in the clinic. She had just moved to the area and was looking on my group’s practice website and suddenly realized I was one of the physicians on staff. We had not seen each other in years. When I saw her name I was delighted. I changed the clinic schedule to make for a longer appointment.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Heather Kristin Schopper |Melina Tessier |paul pin |Alexander T. Yahanda
What Are Medical Conferences Good for? Every so often, hotel ballrooms and convention centers across the U.S. are overrun with clinicians and company representatives in the name of education.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Melina Tessier |paul pin |Alexander T. Yahanda |Jordan Frey
When treating patients presenting with novel symptoms, front-line clinicians have to ask themselves an unwanted question: Could this unfamiliar illness be a sign of a new and emerging pathogen? If so, speed is a necessity; clinicians must identify, isolate, and inform in that order because the spread of pathogens can only be contained once they are diagnosed.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | paul pin |Melina Tessier |Alexander T. Yahanda |Jordan Frey
When I look back at my medical school anatomy textbook (Clemente), there is an incredible bias toward male anatomy. Medical education has consistently emphasized female reproductive anatomy and ignored vulvar anatomy, particularly clitoral nerve anatomy. This is a clear indication that medical education has historically seen women as “baby machines” and not as sexual beings. There has been a systemic disregard of anatomy critical to a woman’s sexual function.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Maya Nambisan |Avneet Soin |Jenna Colturi |Melina Tessier
Nearly half of physicians (47%) say that expected salary “heavily” or “somewhat” influenced their choice of specialty, according to a recent Doximity poll of 2,818 physicians. That figure rises to 65% for physicians under 40 years old, suggesting increasing significance of salary in recent years. With several years of staggering inflation and increasing costs of medical education, more physicians may be considering expected salary when selecting their medical specialty.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Ketan Desai |Jennifer Reid |Alexandra Kharazi |Melina Tessier
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. The genius of Henry Ford was in his perfection of mass production. Ford’s assembly lines produced oodles of Model T cars, with economies of scale, so that the cost of each car fell to a point that even those working in the assembly lines could afford them. His method was copied by other car manufacturers and ultimately by other industries as well. The pharmaceutical industry was one of them.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jennifer Reid |Ketan Desai |Alexandra Kharazi |Melina Tessier
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Recently, several prominent dictionaries released their “word of the year.” For 2022, Merriam-Webster’s selection was “gaslighting,” while Collins English Dictionary chose “permacrisis.” If I were asked instead to choose a word of the year within health care, there would be no ambiguity. The word of the past 12 months would have to be burnout.
