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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
