PinnedNational Women Physicians Day 2023Today, February 3, 2023, is National Women Physicians Day! To recognize the day, I thought it would be fun to put together a roundup of my favorite blog posts on Women In Medicine over the past two years. Gendered Expectations of Physician AccessibilityWomen In Medicine3 min readWomen In Medicine3 min read
PinnedMore hardcore! If the hospital CEO emailed employees like Twitter’s CEOTo: [Group: all employees] From: Office of the CEO Subject: A fork in the road Going forward, we will need to be extremely hardcore to streamline a restructured Health care 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly diseased world. This will mean working even longer hours at high intensity. …Elonmusktwitter3 min readElonmusktwitter3 min read
PinnedGaladriel, Girl, You’re Being Gaslit(Spoiler warning: contains minor spoilers for the first few episodes of The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power, on Amazon Prime) Galadriel, you may be the Elf Commander of the Northern Armies, the Warrior of the Wastelands, and the Lady of the woods of Lothlórien, but I am…Gaslighting3 min readGaslighting3 min read
PinnedWhat if Elon Musk was in charge of your healthcare?It’s not as farfetched as you might think. I’m willing to bet you would consider it more possible now than if I’d asked you this question six months ago. What if, in the near-future, AI algorithms in healthcare advance to the point where corporate-owned conglomerations rely on the AI to determine who gets medical treatment — and who doesn’t? All with the goal of making healthcare more “cost-effective.”Elon Musk3 min readElon Musk3 min read
PinnedThe Heart has a Back Door, and Other Lessons I Learned from Leaving the Practice of Medicine for One YearBefore COVID-19, I left the practice of medicine for what would turn out to become an entire year. Then, the pandemic happened, and I found my way back to clinical practice. During that time away from medicine, I discovered five things that transformed my life and practice. With the guidance…Physician Burnout6 min readPhysician Burnout6 min read
Dec 27, 20222022 Roundup: Top 5 most read blog posts of 2022 — and my top 5 favoritesI haven’t done one of these year-end round-ups before, but given 2022 marked the five year anniversary of the blog, it seemed a good year to start. For each post, I’ve selected a favorite passage to highlight (different from the preview passage you’ll see on the home page). First, the top five most read blog posts of 2022 (as determined by Google analytics): 1. Is Resentment the Ugly Stepsister to Perfectionism? Why Challenging Patients Can Trigger Resentment in Doctors and NursesYear In Review3 min readYear In Review3 min read
Dec 4, 2022OpenAI to generate art, help write a blog post, & opine on TwitterUsing OpenAI to generate art on healthcare burnout, help write (this very) blog post, & predict the consequences of Elon Musk buying Twitter This weekend, after seeing others on social media post images from openAI’s DALL-E-2 art generator, I decided to give it a try. After thinking on a topic…Open AI6 min readOpen AI6 min read
Nov 27, 2022Seven things I learned on Twitter, no matter what happens nextWhat Twitter has meant to me — I joined Twitter in September of 2019. A Gen-X holdout, it was my first foray into a social media platform. (If this sounds crazy to you, it was because during the MySpace and Facebook years, I was mired in medical training and then with “balancing” a career and young family, and the idea of spending more time on a computer was not my idea of a productive way to spend…Twitter3 min readTwitter3 min read
Nov 19, 2022Are you a human healthcare worker in an airborne virus pandemic or an Elven commander in Middle-Earth trying to convince everyone that Sauron’s still a threat?(A list in the satirical style of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency) Everyone around you has stopped believing something dangerous is out there because they can’t see it with the naked eye. You’ve seen people die from it, and your life will never be the same, but those who haven’t lost someone…Healthcare2 min readHealthcare2 min read
Jun 6, 2021The Field Trip When my MD Could Not Fill the Shoes of an RNPublished by Jennifer Lycette, MD on May 18, 2021 Recently, one of my clinic patients asked me to administer his intramuscular medication injection. I appreciated the vote of confidence but had to tell him he was mistaken in thinking that my skill would surpass that of our nurses’. “Trust me,”…Doctors5 min readDoctors5 min read
