Challenges in Medicine

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

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Have You Ever Made An Intern or Medical Student Cry?

Colleen McDermott, MD

Nov 1, 2021

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The Gender Pay Gap in Medicine is Not a Myth

Dagny Zhu

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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Impacted Women Clinicians

Andrea B Braun, MD

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A Pandemic Within a Pandemic: Navigating Burnout Among Health Care Workers

Muhammad Adrish, MD FCCP

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Read Health Care is a Difficult Job, But Health Inequity is a Difficult Problem article image

Health Care is a Difficult Job, But Health Inequity is a Difficult Problem

Blythe Craft, NP

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What It's Like to Be the Zebra in Medical School

Dallas Walter, MD

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Gender Equity on the Vitreoretinal Podium: Progress Made, Still Work To Be Done

Jayanth Sridhar, MD

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Why We Need to Rethink Disparities Research

Helen O Williams, MD, MA

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Athletes Can Ask for Mental Health Help. Why Can’t We?

Christopher Morrow, MD

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My Struggle With “Chronic Invisibility”

Anonymous

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Why Primary Care Clinicians are Key to Identifying and Addressing Behavioral Health Stressors

Nikole Sara Benders-Hadi, MD and 1 other

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The Time is Now for Brain Health Equity

Victor Ekuta, MD

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The Medical Community’s Response to Aducanumab Gives Me Hope

Lachlan Shiver

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Over Half of Clinicians Face Restrictions for Moonlighting. That May Soon Change

Daniel Novinson, MD, MPH and 1 other

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Will New Federal Prescribing Guidelines Make a Difference in Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths?

Joy Westerman

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I Retired after Being Punished for Speaking Out. Now I Can Speak My Mind

Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

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Prior Authorization Is Causing Even More Headaches Than EHR

Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

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Medical Students Suffer in Silence So Their Career Doesn’t

Sara Khan, MD

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Clerkship Year Doesn't Need To Be Like This

Phoebe Prioleau, MD

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The Things We Work Through When Maybe We Shouldn’t

Jennifer Lycette, MD

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Overworked by COVID-19, Clinicians Alter Career Plans in Droves

Abraham Kim and 1 other

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Why We Should Be Proud to Be Disruptive Doctors

Daniel Waters, DO

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