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Plastic surgeon quits and couldn ’t get a job at Chick-fil-A
I just got off the phone with Paul, a highly-sought-after plastic surgeon in New York.
“I don’t want to be a doctor anymore,” Paul says. “What else can I do? I have lots of restaurant experience. I’ve worked in 15 restaurants during my life. It’s not easy, but I could do it. I did research on chains and franchises, and I chose Chick-fil-A. Three months ago I applied to be an owner/operator. I got through the first application and got declined the second round of applications. They are extremely picky. Nearly 20,000 apply, and only a few are chosen.”
I’m shocked he was declined.
“It wasn’t a crushing blo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/pamela-wible" rel="tag" > Pamela Wible, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
RSNA 2017: 2016 Redux...Centaurs Will Make Radiology Great Ag-AI-n!
In readinglast year ' s RSNA report, I was struck with just how little has changed.Here I am this year, 2017, and here ' s how I looked at RSNA 2016:A little grayer, perhaps a pound or two more. But otherwise same ol ' Dalai. And same ol ' RSNA. I even manned the RAD-AID booth again:Yes, I tied the bow-tie all by myself.This is a model housed at the Bayer booth of the airship RAD-AID hopes to use to bring imaging to underserved areas; I think the official rendering is much more impressive, and maybe even a little, well,buxom:I ' m still lobbying for a seat on the first flight. Did I saybuxom? I meanthandsome!I did attend t...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - December 17, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
What do you do when a colleague has cancer?
This year has brought about change — the theme of 2017. As it comes to a close and I reflect back, it is so hard to believe what is going on in the world today, let alone just the United States.
In 2017, I graduated from my internal medicine residency training program, passed my board exam and celebrated my one-year wedding anniversary. I helped my family cope with my grandmother’s progressive dementia and supported them as we realized she could no longer live at home. Despite all of these big life events, nothing made me feel the way I felt after I heard that a colleague of mine still finishing residency was diagnosed...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Practice Management Source Type: blogs
5 challenges of working in a county hospital
As a trainee at a large private health system (residency) followed by a NCI-designed comprehensive cancer (fellowship) in two large metropolitan areas in the United States, I was not prepared to face the challenges of working at a university setting affiliated with a county (public) hospital in more rural west-Texas. After one and a half years of experience as a practicing urologic oncologist, these are the five challenges I have encountered:
1. Access to the latest technology. County (public) hospitals are typically more cash-conscious without access to large amounts of research money, wealthy donors, high-profile fundr...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/pranav-sharma" rel="tag" > Pranav Sharma, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Hospital-Based Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Ben's Sucky Words
Tomorrow, I ’ll mail to the University of Southern Maine my thesis for my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Seeing it packaged and ready to go got me thinking about a gift from my first-semester advisor,Suzanne Strempek Shea. She gave me this little notebook to keep with me so my ability to write something is never far from my impulse to.I labeled my pocket-sized notebook Ben Rubenstein ’s Sucky Words to remind me that I have the freedom to write without judgement or consequence. In fact, I must always accept that any of my written work up until its final form sucks. Without that acceptance, I’d freeze,...
Source: cancerslayerblog - November 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: MFA writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
Ben ' s Sucky Words
Tomorrow, I ’ll mail to the University of Southern Maine my thesis for my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Seeing it packaged and ready to go got me thinking about a gift from my first-semester advisor,Suzanne Strempek Shea. She gave me this little notebook to keep with me so my ability to write something is never far from my impulse to.I labeled my pocket-sized notebook Ben Rubenstein ’s Sucky Words to remind me that I have the freedom to write without judgement or consequence. In fact, I must always accept that any of my written work up until its final form sucks. Without that acceptance, I’d freeze,...
Source: cancerslayerblog - November 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: MFA writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
Health Care Needs Its Rosa Parks Moment
BY SHANNON BROWNLEE
On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 I was at the inaugural Society for Participatory Medicine conference. It was a fantastic day and the ending keynote was the superb Shannon Brownlee. It was great to catch up with her and I’m grateful that she agreed to let THCB publish her speech. Settle back with a cup of coffee (or as it’s Thanksgiving, perhaps something stronger), and enjoy–Matthew Holt
George Burns once said, the secret to a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending—and to have the two as close together as possible. I think the same is true of final keynotes after a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: OP-ED Patients Physicians Lown Institute Overtreatment Right Choice Alliance Shannon Brownlee Society for Participatory Medicine Source Type: blogs
Ovarian Cancer Does Not Exist; Effect on Gynecologic Cancer Surgery
When I was both a medical student and a pathology resident, I was intrigued by the fact that many ovarian cancers I looked at under the microscope consisted of columnar cells and often seemed to grow on the surface of the ovary. Various teachers told me that the neoplasms were mimicking peritoneal and tubal epithelium. Experts now assert that there is no such thing as"ovarian cancer" -- all such neoplasms are now thought to originate in the uterine tubes, thus explaining their histologic appearance (see:Tackling Cancer Myths: It ’s time to accept that ovarian cancer doesn’t exist). Here is an excerpt from thi...
Source: Lab Soft News - November 3, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Preventive Medicine Quality of Care Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The smallest human acts can have a lifetime of impact
My dad died on May 11, 2003. It was Mother’s Day. I was 18 years old. Those are the easy facts. The more difficult ones are those detailing the events that led to his death. My dad was so many things — a brilliant geologist, a loving father, an inventor, a pilot, and a Vietnam veteran — to name a few. He survived three tours on the front lines in Vietnam, but he didn’t come out unscathed. He was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder and, subsequently, progressive alcoholism. Despite numerous attempts by my family to help him, and treatment in every form imaginable, we watched a truly amazing person become...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 27, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/karmen-wielunski" rel="tag" > Karmen Wielunski, DO < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Medicine as Social Work
By: Katharine Lawrence, MD, MPH
I chose medicine as a career, not necessarily because I was a scientist, but because I am a humanist. I believe in the concept of illness, not just disease, and strive in my career to better understand and address the various social, political, and economic realities that inform my patients’ health. I chose an undergraduate medical program, the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM), because its mission statement and cultural ethos mirrored these beliefs.
As part of the HWCOM curriculum (described in a recent Academic Medicine article), medical students participate in a “household-...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 26, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective diversity health disparities medical education medical students residency social determinants of health Source Type: blogs
When medical training stresses you: Write it out
I don’t think I would be the first resident to claim that residency is hard. Anyone who has gone through, or is currently participating in residency, will attest to the challenge of medical training. Efforts have been made on national and institutional levels to address this with work hour restrictions limiting the number of hours a resident can work or the number of calls a trainee can take. These rules and regulations attempt to alleviate the burden on residents and improve patient care. However, I feel the problems in physician training are much deeper.
The practice of medicine has changed, and with this change, incre...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-mcneil" rel="tag" > Michael McNeil, MD < /a > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Lions and Sentinel Nodes! Oh My!
Eid Mubarak!It seems surreal that two weeks have passed so quickly. As today is the holiday of Eid Al-Adha, the hospital has very little activity, and I ' m taking the day to pack, catch up on correspondence, and perhaps pay one last visit to Slipway for lunch.This was on Page 16 of the local English-language newspaper a few days ago. A coincidence with my arrival in country? I wonder...I haven ' t posted since heading out to Ngorongoro Crater, so let me briefly fill you in on that incredible experience. I ' ll place some photos here, but they can all be found at THIS LINK for your leisurely perusal. I left ...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 1, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Breaking In A New Doctor
I was disappointed when my endocrinologist left for a new hospital. But I can understand that as the mother of two small children she needed a shorter commute to be able to achieve a good work/life balance. However, that meant I needed a new endocrinologist. I met him yesterday.Before I met my endocrinologist after I had an appointment with my rheumatologist who is a nice woman in her late 50s/early 60s who has been a doctor for many years. In contrast my endocrinologist joined the hospital in early July after his residency. This means he is a kid, literally. I think I have clothes older than he is.When I met him, my first...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 17, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctors endocrinologist thyroid cancer young doctors Source Type: blogs
