What Cancer Did Not Teach Me
For those who do excellent work, but quietly, and sometimes under the radar, the simple phrase, confidently stated—"You are in good hands"—can make all the difference. You got this. Shailaja J. Hayden...
1 Apr 20245min
Our Achilles' Heel: Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty
Rather than sheltering me from the rigors of doctoring, the museum has deepened my relationship to medicine by restoring its inherent mystery. It reminds me that the reality of our patients will alway...
18 Mar 20244min
Pain, Palliative Care, and Practicing Empathy
Through all the time I had known him, and through all the rounds and presentations, many voices were heard: my own, my senior resident, my attending, the ICU team, the consult teams, the family. But t...
4 Mar 20244min
Language Equity in Medical Education
Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health disparities and enhance language-appropriate traini...
20 Feb 202447min
A Familiar Question
I started this letter with a question, but I pray not for an answer. I cannot accept one. Instead, please give me the strength to replace the wet mask soaked in my tears. Give me the power to continue...
5 Feb 20244min
Seeing Death for the First Time
As medical students, we know of death. We study anatomy through cadaver lab, we memorize mortality rates of diseases, and we hear stories from our professors about their late patients. But most of us ...
22 Jan 20243min
The Closeted Curriculum
I wonder what would change if students were taught that personal leadership was not about hiding their brokenness, but recognizing their wholeness. If we were not asked to sacrifice ourselves to serve...
15 Jan 20245min
Biopsy
What if I had not been at an academic institution, with a learner and a supervising teacher? Whose steadying hand would have been on my leg? I needed that hand. Katherine C. Chretien reflects on under...
8 Jan 20245min
