The Healing Power of Humor
“What’s your favorite cocktail?” A question like this is usually asked at a dinner party, a weekend getaway, or maybe as an icebreaker in…
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When Healing Hurts: The Cost of Caregiving
“도와주세요!” (“Help me, please!”) My mom yelped as her right leg rested on the back door of my car. The urgent cry for help…
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Moral Typecasting and the God Complex
The concept of moral typecasting states that one who has a position of moral agency, the capacity of doing good or evil onto others,…
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PRP: Platelet Rich Plasma with Powerful Regenerative Properties
BREAKING NEWS: “Giancarlo Stanton Sidelined By PRP Injections, Set To Start Season On Injured List: How Yankees Will Adjust”.1 Now, admittedly, I know nothing…
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Medical Ethics Series #2 – Metaethical Theories Part 1
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the second installment! As a reminder, in the first edition we discussed in general terms what…
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Comments on Student Ethics Articles
On Nicole Varda’s Article: “To Pull or Not to Pull: The Trolley Problem and its Application to Medicine” I wonder if there is another…
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The Rise and Fall of Hemosol: Insights from the Journey of Cell-Free Hemoglobin Products
Prior to starting medical school, I seriously underestimated how often blood is utilized in the hospital. I previously imagined that blood was only needed…
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To Pull or Not to Pull: The Trolley Problem and its Application to Medicine
The trolley problem is a classic example of an ethical thought experiment. The fictional conundrum is as follows: you are an onlooker watching a…
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Medical Ethics Series #1 – Laying the Groundwork
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle can be paraphrased as saying “happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of…
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Unweaving the Brachial Plexus
I come from a family of teachers, and so teaching was revered in my upbringing. I had unique insight to the experiences of those…
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Physician Private Practice: Future or Folly?
Once the seemingly endless years of medical training come to a close, the newly minted physician will find themselves deciding not just where they…
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Through the Neurostorm
This past month I spent the majority of my time reviewing charts of patients who had sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as part…
Read MoreSaturday Mornings
Saturday mornings fill my heart with gratitude for the people around me. Anyone who has been with Street Medicine knows that the individuals we…
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The Assyrians & Epilepsy
The first evidence of epilepsy’s description is interwoven with the advent of human civilization, a condition known as “antasubbu” that plagued the unfortunate in…
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Working With (Not Against) Our Psychology: Contingency Management in Substance Use Disorders
When I signed up for an addiction medicine elective in an OB/GYN clinic, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I had heard before…
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A Day in the Life: ICU Edition
Think about this: Imagine living in a small space, surrounded by the same four white walls for a long period of time (that is…
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When There’s Nothing Left to Do, There’s Everything Left to Do
“Well that’s it for our patient in room 214B. He’s leaving AMA (Against Medical Advice).” “What?!” The resident’s words hit me like a ton…
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Wegovy: It’s all the Rage
Discussion over glucagon-like peptide analogs (GLPs) has become a medical hot-topic, extending beyond clinical discussion and becoming a cultural phenomenon. Marketed as a weight-loss…
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The Yips in Professional Baseball: Is it Task-Specific Dystonia or a Psychogenic Impairment in Coordination?
What is the most feared injury for a baseball player? Is it a torn ulnar collateral ligament, often requiring Tommy John surgery? Or perhaps…
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Reflections of a Night on Trauma Surgery
A beep and a clack, the double doors groan back Outwards they swing as the trauma rolls in to bay three Green-clad staff like…
Read MoreElection Anxiety and You: A Brief Breakdown of the Public Mental Health Anomaly
In Phoenix, the close of summer is normally a time to be celebrated. However, this year as temperatures begin to fall and the promise…
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“No, I’m Not in Medical School To Become a Nurse”…and More: The Experience of Female-Identifying Students in Medicine
Our daily innocent interactions with patients and their families can be harsh reminders of how we are perceived from outside the medical institution. At…
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Willy, Our PA
“Our own group has been a little off this morning; we’re missing Willy, our PA.” That was Dr. Crepeau’s response to my blubbering, slightly…
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For the Dogs: LOY-001 and the Potential Future of Anti-Aging Medicine
At its core, the purpose of medicine is to improve, and oftentimes extend, life through the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The logic to…
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“The Operating Table is Not Paired with da Vinci”
Leonardo da Vinci is renowned as an artist, scientist, and inventor–a true Renaissance man. Famously known for painting works such as The Mona Lisa…
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