There is More to Thank You than Meets the Eye
Next time a patient thanks me, I will not let self-conscious worries diminish their words. True thankfulness reflects deep humanistic connection and is unburdened by the hierarchies of medicine. Pauli...
4 Juli 20224min
Including Nurses as Members of the Resident Education Team
Guests Chirag Bhat, MD, and Warren Cheung, MD, MMEd, join hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE, to discuss their research into nurses' perspectives about giving feedback on resi...
20 Juni 202222min
Ann's Final Gift
Despite the emotional challenges that my anatomy course presented, I feel reaffirmed in my desire to pursue medicine and now understand the beautiful complexity of the human body in a way I never coul...
6 Juni 20223min
Blue Footprints
As tears seeped from the corners of her eyes and stained her cheeks, I felt powerless. I reached for her hand, wishing I could offer my bare human hand instead of an impersonal blue latex glove. Holdi...
23 Maj 20225min
Physicians Who Do Not Listen to Patients Shame Our Profession
The resident came into my room with one question and he got it answered. The rest was not his problem. But it was my problem. Arthur Garson Jr, clinical professor of health systems and population heal...
16 Maj 20225min
Blind Spots
Our patients should not be our blind spots. Even with the most thorough routines, I may not catch important clues—be it some subtle discomfort or altered affect—without keen observation, clues that ma...
9 Maj 20224min
Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents
Guests Lala Forrest and Joe Geraghty join host Toni Gallo to discuss the journal's Trainee Letters to the Editor feature. They highlight selected letters submitted in response to last year's call for ...
25 Apr 202247min
The Medical Student Turing Test
Our words and actions may strike others, or strike back at us, in unexpected ways. We must therefore always be ready to show our most human sides: to absorb surprising responses, lean into awkward mom...
11 Apr 20224min
