In the mid-1800s, Ignaz Semmelweis, then a professor at Johns Hopkins, proposed something outrageous: Doctors and medical students working in the maternity ward…
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Medicine systematically disadvantages women physicians at every stage of their careers
by Elisabeth Poorman MD March 5, 2018When my friend was in her fourth year of medical school, she and her boyfriend sat down with their dean to discuss…
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Physicians face a host of challenges in practice, but the one that looms largest is often this — they don’t know everything.…
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A 26-year-old woman with a mechanical mitral valve prosthesis visits to discuss anticoagulation management during pregnancy. Her last menstrual period was 6…
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“Where is Saipan?” I typed into Google to search for this little U.S. territory island in the Western Pacific when I was…
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An ultrasound posted on Instagram. Does a physician have a duty to warn?
by Casey Humbyrd MD and Kavita Shah Arora MD February 14, 2018Early this month, Joanna Gaines, co-host of HGTV’s popular Fixer Upper, shared her pregnancy news with the world via a baby bump…
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A system to identify doctors who’ve been working too many hours
by Valerie A. Jones MD February 12, 2018My shift had finally ended. As a second-year resident, I was driving home after 30 hours awake straight. The busy call included…
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On mountains and miscarriage: a physician’s story of loss
by Meredith Bourne MD February 2, 2018I feel the mountain in my bones. The methodical plodding of feet over uneven terrain, a meditation, the grace of a single…