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How ironic it is to be applauded for keeping our oaths
As an emergency medicine doctor who trained in the Bronx, I decided that I must return to NYC in solidarity. This is the first time I have taken...
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Physicians and the psychological trauma of COVID-19
In April 2020, Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency medicine physician from New York-Presbyterian Medical Center, came to the University of Virginia...
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Amid COVID, first do no harm
I am a surgeon, mother, daughter, researcher, and ethicist. These multiple roles dancing together to a more discordant tune amid this...
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The crisis of rotation availability during a pandemic: a medical student’s ethical conundrum
With COVID-19 still consistently creating setbacks in the health care community, we see yet another issue for medical students because of this...
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The importance and power of physicians advocating for themselves
The COVID-19 pandemic has most of the country in isolation, but it is bringing doctors together. We are no different. After medical school, we...
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With COVID-19, we have a unique opportunity and need to deregulate buprenorphine prescriptions
My patient was a young man who wanted to be placed back on buprenorphine. He had started using again. He often missed appointments, did not pick...
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COVID: an impending case of the stripes
Elise loves this book. The protagonist is a girl who, due to a desire to fit in with her friends, denies her love of lima beans. Camilla awakens...
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We need to learn to accept death in the United States
Life may never be the same after COVID-19. With tens of thousands of Americans having succumbed to the coronavirus in the United States, some of...
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We are not past the risk of COVID-19
If you’re like me and you don’t live in a state that has already started re-opening, you are likely taking a lot of walks. Regardless of where...
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Self-care is not selfish: It’s imperative to save the practice of medicine
The necessity of putting on our own oxygen mask first has never been more clear. Bringing wellness into the mainstream culture of medicine and...
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When learning medicine is not enough
“Hey, doc,” our new patient grinned at me without teeth. He wears his teeth to eat peanuts, he explained, but today was hankering for a ham...
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Alfred Hitchcock, COVID-19, and the MacGuffin
The last couple of months in a world with COVID-19 have felt absurd, incomprehensible, like something out of a movie. Most of us hunker down in...
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Celebrate health care workers by not suing them
In New York City, each evening at 7 p.m., the sound of people banging on pots and pans can be heard from apartment buildings within an earshot of...
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Medical care is being rationed, but not in the way you think
As the pandemic loomed, there was widespread concern about running out of crucial medical resources, such as mechanical ventilators. We watched...
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An orthopedic surgeon goes to the COVID frontlines
I am an orthopedic surgeon in New Jersey and recently started a new practice. Less than a week after starting, news of COVID-19 arriving in NYC...
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A vaccine alone will not be enough to recover from the impact of COVID-19: Emotional antibodies against it are needed as well
I was seven years old when I first got my heart broken. I was swiftly rebuffed by my second-grade crush, Brett who, upon getting gently pecked on...