September was a CRAZY month for me! I jumped right into my acting internship after Labor Day, and four weeks later, it felt like I was just coming up for air for the first time. An acting intern (aka AI, sub-intern, or sub-I) is a fourth-year medical student who “acts” like an intern, usually in […]
“You can lose weight eating only pizza.”
I was constantly amazed on my Clinical Nutrition rotation over the past two weeks, both by some misconceptions patients had about nutrition as well as my own misconceptions about nutrition! Here are some of my favorite facts I picked up in the Bariatric Surgery and Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases clinic: Almond milk contains only […]
World Mental Health Day
Reflecting on World Mental Health Day, I think the prevalence of depression among medical professionals from the medical student to resident physician to attending physician levels is an important topic to talk about. While the rate of depression among the general population is 5.4%, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA in […]
