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 […]
How to Deliver Bad News to a Patient
After having my first experience with delivering bad news, I realized just how important it is to learn the best technique and method. Of course, every patient and their reactions may be different. However, physicians are people too, and one of the hardest tasks is giving patients bad news. So I thought I would share […]
Telling a Patient She Has Terminal Cancer
One of the most difficult moments I’ve ever had was being on Internal Medicine and having a patient come in with terminal liver cancer, more specifically hepatocellular carcinoma. She had come to the hospital one month before with similar pain and left with a diagnosis of a ruptured ovarian cyst. When she came back with […]
