Sara Hurley

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Articles

a medical student's insight

Oct 4, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Mustafa Farooq |Horacio Romero Castillo |Clarissa C. Ren |Sara Hurley

The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on every aspect of health care, including neurosurgery. As a fourth-year medical student navigating my neurosurgical rotations during this unprecedented time, I experienced firsthand how the pandemic reshaped our approach to medical education, patient care, and surgical practice.
The complexity of resilience and the role of medical improv

Nov 21, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Beth Boynton |Jennifer Lynn |Clarissa C. Ren |Sara Hurley

High incidences of burnout, quiet quitting, suicide, workplace violence, excessive and relentless stress, and chronic staffing shortages reveal a huge need for resilience among health care workers. Resilience is a complex competency involving flexibility of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to adversity. Adversity, especially when it comes to working in health care, involves individuals and the cultures they work in.
The role of institutions in medical misconduct

Oct 6, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lynn |Clarissa C. Ren |Sara Hurley |Matthew A. Crane

There are no words more devastating than, “Our hands are tied” to a survivor reporting abuse and seeking some semblance of accountability from a larger institution. “The institution admitted no fault” is a close second. Picture this sequence: a trusted physician at a renowned academic medical center sees a patient at a vulnerable stage in her life for a regular appointment. As she is exposed for a standard physical exam, he sexually assaults her.
The surprising impact of medical students on patients

Jul 25, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Nicole Cifra |Clarissa C. Ren |Sara Hurley |Matthew A. Crane

There are a few clinical scenarios that stand out to me from my undergraduate medical education. I completed a combined MD/MPH program, and I remember coming back from the year of public health, inserted between years two and three of medical school, feeling rusty and often in the way. One conversation I’ll always remember is one I overheard between an attending on my family medicine rotation (my first rotation of my third year) and one of his patients, a woman in her sixties.