Randall S. Fong

Oct 3, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Randall S. Fong |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong

Teaching is a blast! As an attending, I love to employ offbeat methods, with absurdity and humor, at times skirting the edge of political incorrectness, all for the purpose of enhancing one’s medical education. Educating medical students and residents by practicing physicians is a tried-and-true element of medical education, a practice dating back through the ages, where those without formal education in the art of teaching provided instruction.

Oct 30, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Tod Stillson |Randall S. Fong |Steve Blatt |Chetan Wasekar

The majority are wrong. Is it possible that the growing majority of doctors are mistaken in their decision to choose traditional employment? How is it that the most intelligent group of individuals on earth can be influenced to believe that being confined to traditional employment is in their best interest, especially when the burnout rate is approaching almost 60 percent? Don’t follow the herd.

Oct 1, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Martin Young |Divya Srinivasan |Tejas Sekhar |Randall S. Fong

During my early years as a pediatric hospitalist in the U.K. during the ’80s, a figure that loomed large was the chemical pathologist (CP). The CP was the guardian of the laboratory, and every hospital had one. This fearsome beast was approached with trepidation, as the outcome was likely to be a unique but bruising “educational experience.”Interaction was common because almost every lab test apart from the CBC, ESR, chem 20, and TSH had to be approved by the CP.

Sep 23, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Randall S. Fong |Jay Wong |Barry Greene |Julie Appleby

One day, you find yourself on the edge, peering into the abyss. Then someone pushes you in. Welcome to the first day as a surgery intern. Few folks outside of medicine fully fathom the rigors a doctor must endure during post-graduate training. From the get-go, we were thrown into the fire, responsible for complicated, sick hospital patients, in what felt like a prolonged boot camp, where ridiculously long hours, horrid scolding, and humiliation were commonplace. July 1st, 1990.

May 17, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Randall S. Fong |Jennifer Lincoln |Amanda Xi |Katherine Bishop

“Money makes the world go ’round.”Whether you believe this this figurative adage or not, it is a hard truth. Money is ubiquitous; it pervades everyday life. And money is the cornerstone of business. So I’m shocked to hear “pretty much nothing” when I ask residents what they’re taught about business and money these days. Not to insult anyone’s intelligence, but I’ll venture an assumption.