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1 month ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Stephanie E. Moss |Elijah Abass |Najya Williams |Lynne Lederman
As a psychiatry resident, I was drawn to this field for a simple reason: We take the time to listen. In a medical system that often prioritizes lab values over lived experience, psychiatry dares to sit with patients and say, “I believe you.”But before I put on my Patagonia with an embroidered “MD,” I was a patient asking for someone to listen to my health concerns.
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1 month ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Najya Williams |Elijah Abass |Stephanie E. Moss |Lynne Lederman
When I first started medical school, I had no idea how I’d get through it. The first two years were intensely difficult, with the newly overwhelming workload, countless exams, and the far-sighted goal of actually talking to patients. I still remember my biochemistry block, where we learned about the process of glycogen storage and energy metabolism on a cellular level.
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1 month ago | 
opmed.doximity.com | Elijah Abass |Najya Williams |Stephanie E. Moss |Lynne Lederman
“Hey man, I’m proud of you.” I stood next to Tony’s hospital bed, his room bathed in harsh fluorescent lighting and covered in drab ’90’s wallpaper. His words, which he said after I wrapped up my disjointed cranial nerve exam, caught me off guard. I was one month into my internal medicine rotation, the first of my third year, still learning how to present to attendings, perform physical exams, and navigate the hospital’s indecipherable EMR. Everything was new and difficult.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Jessica Reeves |Tasia Isbell |Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss
My Role As ‘The Clinician In The Family’Two really common clinical scenarios. First: male, late 60s, painless hematuria, referred to urology. Cystoscopy reveals lesion on bladder wall; stage I bladder cancer. Second: female, 70, unwitnessed fall, no prodromal symptoms. ED visit two days later, incidental finding of two cerebral aneurysms but otherwise normal workup, working diagnosis: syncope.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Tasia Isbell |Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss |Danielle Pigneri
The story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a cautionary tale about the dangers of false alarms. The shepherd boy repeatedly tricks the villagers into believing a wolf is attacking his flock. When a real wolf finally appears, the villagers ignore his cries. The moral is clear: Repeated false alarms lead to skepticism and inattention when genuine danger arises. But what do you do when it is a 14-year-old girl who cried pancreatitis, and not a boy and the threat of a wolf?
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
opmed.doximity.com | Nishant Pandya |Stephanie E. Moss |Danielle Pigneri |Lisa Belisle
The Patient Isn’t Sick, But We Can Still Treat the Parent“Kid’s a level 5. Fever starting six hours ago, runny nose. He’s fine.”Her three-year-old son had developed a fever and rhinorrhea that day. She was worried about an ear infection. His exam showed no signs of otitis media and we discussed how a viral upper respiratory infection likely caused his fever. “Thank god.” The heavy relief in her sigh told me there was something left unsaid.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Nicholas S. Tito |Stephanie E. Moss |Debra Blaine
There are 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits filed annually. Among them, 52,190 are summarily dropped for reasons unknown; 26,860 are settled; 1,190 result in plaintiff verdicts, and 4,760 in defense verdicts. Only 33.3% of these lawsuits are likely to have merit, while 66.7% do not. To make matters worse, only one out of every 37.5 claims reviewed by attorneys is represented, meaning that 3,102,500 other claims are abandoned for reasons known only to those attorneys.
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May 24, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Caissa Troutman |Emily Kahoud |Toni Bernhard |Stephanie E. Moss
I am 47 years old and was today years old when I realized I have been going through perimenopause for the last four years. It is only with a retrospective lens that I can review my last four years and pick up intermittent symptoms or even just mild nuisance-level symptoms that I can say are likely from perimenopause. What is perimenopause? Perimenopause is the transition stage before reaching menopause, which is defined as 12 months of continuous amenorrhea (or no menstrual cycles).
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ryan Ritchie |Emily Kahoud |Toni Bernhard |Stephanie E. Moss
The final three minutes of my hour-long elliptical workout were not easy. Pain spread across my stomach, causing me to row in a half-sitting motion, and my chest vacillated between violent coughs and the sorts of deep breaths people take when they think they’ve seen a ghost. Perspiration fell from my shirtless torso to the garage floor. The amount of sweat was not the kind my body produces from exercise. This amount of sweat was from something else.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Alan Lindemann |Jennifer Lynn |Stephanie E. Moss
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!Join Emily Schehlein, a glaucoma and cataract surgeon. In this episode, we delve into the emotional and ethical complexities of delivering life-altering medical diagnoses. Emily shares her insights and experiences in the world of ophthalmology and how she navigates the challenging task of delivering bad news to patients. Emily Schehlein is a glaucoma and cataract surgeon.
