Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But after the operation, Janine said, as the anesthesia wore off, a resident came by to inform her that she had gotten her period; the resident had noticed while conducting a pelvic exam.
The federal government faulted York Hospital for allowing a father to help deliver his daughter’s baby last summer. Medical staff allowed the man to “scrub in” for the scheduled cesarean section, hold retractors on the patient’s incision site, suction the baby’s nose and hand the baby to the mother, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that cited interviews with operating room personnel.
Last year I treated a young patient struggling with body image issues. This child’s parents feared that being fat was a harbinger of a horrible future. Their fear was not uncommon, as we live in a culture that idolizes thinness and equates fatness with moral failing.
A rushed proposal that became federal policy across the country this month will increase the cost and decrease access to life-saving care for patients in dire need of a liver transplant across much of the South and Midwest. The result: People in Kentucky and largely rural areas of the country will be more likely to die because they won’t receive the care they need or would have had access to before this month.
A rookie doctor in New York City for his first year of residency was gay bashed by his surgical bosses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, the doctor alleges in a lawsuit. Dr. Chad Jensen, a surgical resident, said one supervisor referred to him as a member of the ATM or “ass to mouth crew,” and others made vulgar jokes at his expense.
I went into medicine with the goal of using my interest in science and communication to help improve people’s lives. I decided to work in medical education because I think it is the responsibility of all physicians to educate both their patients and the next generation of physicians.