Private Equity in Medicine
Some commonly expressed sentiments I’ve heard amongst my colleagues since beginning my medical training is, “the older generation sold out and left us,” or…
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Your Brain on TikTok
The Vogue Challenge, Zoom Meeting Mishaps, Turn Your DMs Into Quotes, Silhouette Challenge – do any of these sound familiar? There’s a good chance…
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Dungeons and Dragons: A Med Student Essential
If you’re a med student, the words “free time” may not be too familiar. But you may find yourself having occasional small stretches of…
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Analyzing the Impact of Medical Scribes
One of the very first things medical students at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix are taught is that patients want…
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Full Circle
On a recent clerkship rotation, I went to see a patient as I normally would. When I saw this individual and heard them speak,…
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War Tourism
War. War never changes. And neither does humanity’s response to it: anger; disgust; a desire to help; and for some, the lust for thrills. …
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The Traditional Sense
The following is a poem I wrote for myself before the first day of our clinical anatomy lab. She is not alive in the…
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Compassion is a Tree: Respect for Human Dignity, Self-awareness, and Empathy
If compassion is a tree, then human dignity is the roots, self-awareness is the branches, and empathy is the leaves. Of a tree, human…
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The Big Decision
“I want to die today.” Written on the white paper with a fat marker. Written because his voice was gone and his diaphragm was…
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Cultivating Compassionate Patient Care at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine—Phoenix
The cultivation of compassionate patient care is threaded throughout training at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. It begins as we interview and…
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