As we continue through the summer months, medical students are putting the finishing touches on their elective rotations for their fourth year. These rotations, also known as audition rotations or sub-internships, enable students to “showcaseR…
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If You Want To Live Longer, This Study Suggests You Exercise A Lot More Than Previously Recommended
Those who exercised 150 to 600 minutes per week reduced their mortality risk by more than 20%, an American Heart Association found.
To fight medical student burnout, focus less on the clinic and more on life
Medical training has historically been known for its intensity, during which work-life balance is traded in for intensive study sessions and early morning rounds. In recent years, medical schools have become increasingly interested in programs to impro…
Biden Tests Positive For Covid
The 79-year-old is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House.
Biden Tests Positive For Covid
The 79-year-old is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House.
Top 10 things new interns should do
New resident physicians who have earned their MD degrees will be heading to hospitals to start their residencies during the last two week in June and the first week in July. What can a beginning doctor do during the first month of internship to get his…
Should your child try for medical school?
An essay from 1989. Some day one of my children will likely ask what I once asked my stepfather, “Dad, do you think I should try for med school?” I feel that it will most likely be our inquisitive middle child, Clayton John (“CJ”…
Researchers Transplant Pig Hearts In 2 Brain Dead Patients
The pair of successful transplants comes months after the first-ever successful pig heart transplant into a living person.
Biden: Senate Should Break Filibuster To Codify Abortion Rights Into Law
“I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade into law and the way to do that is to make sure Congress votes to do that,” Biden said.
Delivering unpalatable truths in medicine
Many providers enter medicine to comfort patients and their loved ones. However, much of what I do doesn’t live up to that intention. In the past few months and particularly the past few weeks, I’ve spent most of my afternoons making little…
