Priyanka Bakhtiani

Jul 31, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Abiba Salahou |Rosemary Eseh-Logue |Priyanka Bakhtiani |Thomas Gruber

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. Compassion is vital to ensuring the welfare of our patients. As healers, every interaction we have with a patient has the potential to be therapeutic or detrimental to their healing. It has been well-documented that patients who are treated with compassion experience greater satisfaction in their health care, have better outcomes, and are more likely to be compliant.

Jul 27, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Priyanka Bakhtiani |Thomas Gruber |Lloyd D Holm

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. “I stopped hanging out with physicians because all they talk about is work!” If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard someone say this in the last few years, I’d be far richer than what my meager academic pediatric endocrinology salary allows.

Jul 27, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Thomas Gruber |Priyanka Bakhtiani |Lloyd D Holm

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I recently cared for a patient on death row. He had severe cervical stenosis in his neck with bad compression of his spinal cord and was gradually losing his ability to use his hands for simple tasks such as eating and dressing. He was in a significant amount of pain and his walking had deteriorated to needing a walker.

Apr 13, 2023 | opmed.doximity.com | Priyanka Bakhtiani |James Turner |Melissa Schiffman |Jordan Frey

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. I applied to 36 programs for residency, and on the very first day of application review, I got rejection letters from 20. But as an International Medical Graduate (IMG), my experience was not unique. In the NRMP 2022 Program director’s survey, about 50% program directors indicated that they “seldom” interviewed IMGs or Foreign Medical Graduates (FMG).