I have little doubt that most of us in medical school and beyond got there because we love medicine but it can become easy to forget what that really means. Because as one of the world’s best-known doctors the eponymous protagonist of Dr. Who reminds us “love, it’s not an emotion. Love is a promise” […]
Do “Love Languages” Matter in Patient Care?
Have you ever read the book or taken the quiz to find out your “love language?” There are 5 of them—words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch. I’m pretty split between words of affirmation and physical touch. I always wondered, how does this relate to patient care or does it even […]
Catching Babies
I am convinced that whoever created the reputation of ob-gyn as a hostile environment for medical students has never spent any time in the field. Of course, I may have simply gotten lucky with those residents and attending physicians around me but I have found it to be an incredibly welcoming environment. Also absent at […]
