Another one of my musings. It seems that medicine is the only profession where any hierarchy is actively frowned upon. As an example - In order to not hurt sentiments of others and ‘empower’ everyone ‘equally’ doctors become providers, endocrinologists is changed to endocrinology, doclinks are renamed carelink… as if referring to a doctor as…
Being Human
I am a physician. We are always taught to see our patients as more than their state of illness or diagnosis. ‘Speak to the patient’, ‘listen’, ‘look them in the eye’, ‘do not put one foot out the door’… the list of do’s and don’ts… while self explanatory… is long. A good doctor is considered…
Darkness… and light…
If 2020 was the year of a war, 2021 is very much proving to be the year of its long aftermath that has no end - a battle that drags on, with weary soldiers, angry citizens and ongoing losses of life. Every conversation, every decision, is drenched in the consciousness of this lingering threat that…
Saving lives
We as physicians often struggle with failure. We struggle with its definition, its implications, its relevance. And most of all we struggle at times with the isolation of not many being able to comprehend our sense of failure from our perspective. What is failure to us? And why do I say it is strangely isolating…
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