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Dec 5, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mohini Dasari
Mohini Dasari, MD·Follow3 min read·--It’s hard to know how to set boundaries as an adult when “boundaries” wasn’t really a concept for you for the first 2–3 decades of your life. Everyone seems to be talking about boundaries these days. Therapists, psychiatrists, friends, memes on Instagram — all praising establishing, protecting and respecting boundaries. As a parent of a young, vivacious and stubborn 3 year-old, I think about boundaries a lot in the context of parenting.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mohini Dasari
Mohini Dasari, MD·Follow2 min read·--It actually isn’t a secret. We just somehow forget how to do it as we get older. I look at my 3 year old daughter, for instance — she, and most other young children, epitomize this concept that ironically, later in life, they will probably spend years trying to rediscover: the (not so) simple art of living in the moment. Being still, in the present moment, means truly absorbing all the information your senses are giving you, and being present with your thoughts.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Aditya Jain |Jordan Frey |Hailey Roumimper |Mohini Dasari
Nuclear fusion is only 20 years away — and it has been for the last 50 years. So goes the joke in the physics community, reflecting the ever-elusive nature of this scientific breakthrough. In the realm of neurology, we face a similar paradox. For years, neurologists have anticipated a revolution in the understanding and treatment of neurological disorders, but progress has felt incremental.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jordan Frey |Hailey Roumimper |Mohini Dasari |Jenna Colturi
Too many doctors find themselves in golden handcuffs. This happens when, despite a high income, doctors accrue expenses that equal or exceed their income. And no matter how hard it might seem to be able to spend up to the limit of a salary (especially when you are still in training), it is not uncommon. Unfortunately (and counter to what popular culture says), excessive spending is associated with minimal to no improvement in overall happiness and can be associated with burnout in doctors.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jenna Colturi |Hailey Roumimper |Mohini Dasari |Lachlan Shiver
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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Aug 8, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Hailey Roumimper |Mohini Dasari |Jenna Colturi |Lachlan Shiver
Empathic communication involves accepting and allowing different perspectives and emotions in other people, and it involves actively listening to another’s world view. In the clinical world, studies have shown that empathic understanding and communication are associated with better outcomes for patients and families.
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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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May 16, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Nishant Pandya |Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick |Hardeep Phull |Mohini Dasari
“Any tips on helping him sleep better?”I sat across from a tired mother holding her 7-month-old son who was waking up every three hours to breastfeed overnight. I froze, because I did not have an immediate answer to her question. I could regurgitate the safe sleep guidelines and recite appropriate intervals between feeding to prevent hypoglycemia, but I could tell that was not the guidance she sought. I mumbled something about winding down and keeping a regular schedule.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Mohini Dasari
Correlation does not imply causation, we are often taught in medicine. But patterns of attrition from one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest medical training institutions call for a closer look. Since 2017, eight surgical trainees (physicians who have graduated from medical school and are pursuing surgical residency or subspecialty training) have left the University of Washington. Of those, seven were women, and six of those were women of color. I was one of them.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Lynne Lederman |Dara Baker |Jordan Frey |Mohini Dasari
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers. Attendees can look forward to multiple presentations on prostate, urothelial, renal cell, adrenal, and testicular cancers. Cheryl T. Lee, MD, will present the keynote: Charting New Paths: Increasing Patient Representation in Genitourinary Malignancy Trials. Three general sessions are devoted to prostate cancer.
