Challenges in Medicine

Examining the issues in medicine that you, your colleagues, and your patients face.

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Why Do We Reduce Our Patients to Words?

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Nicholas Salter

May 10, 2021

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Taking Race(ism) Out of the Equation

Victor Ekuta, MD

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The New Price Transparency Rule Aims to Lower Drug Costs. But Will It Work?

Abraham Kim

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I Can Affect Social Change as a Surgeon, Too

Nzuekoh Nchinda, MD

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The Case for Three Years of Med School

Connor Breinholt

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Why We Should Be Encouraging 'Stupid' Questions

Scarlett Hao, MD

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The Consequences of Not Following Your Gut

Elizabeth Moham

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Justice Is Not a Passive Process. Medicine Must Step Up

Yuemei (Amy) Zhang, MD, MBA

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The New CPT Codes: The Start of A Long Way to Go

Melinda Rebecca Ring, MD FACP, ABOIM

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The Case of the Missing Gallstone

Bhagwan Satiani, MD

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Why COVID-19 No-Visitation Policies May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

David Deemer

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'Who Has Access to Health Care?' and Other Questions Worth Asking

Zainab Mabizari, MD

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Resilience Can Only Take Us So Far

Charles Black, MD

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Of Medical Students and Goldfish: How Schools Affect Us

Lizbeth Hu, MD

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I Left Medicine For a Year. Here's What I Learned, and Why I'm Coming Back

Jennifer Lycette, MD

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Who Are You Calling Doctor?

Scarlett Hao, MD

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An Apple A Day? Evaluating Gaps in Medical Training

Beatrice Go, MD

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The DNR Tattoo

Lindsay Rebecca Ripley, MD

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We’ve Taught Patients To Rely On Us Instead of Themselves

Brian Andrew Freeman, MD, MPH

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Why We Need to Speak Up on Health Care Reform

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS

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The ‘Do Something’ Bias in Medicine

Charlotte Grinberg, MD

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Requiem For the Written Note

Daniel Waters, DO

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