In the wake of the “obesity epidemic,” more and more nutritional policies have been proposed and pushed through. Most of these policies are based on a set of guidelines called the National Dietary Guidelines for Americans. I thought it would be interesting to look a little bit more into the history of the National Dietary […]
Stress + Physician = Bad
Research has shown that a physician’s experience of stress in a clinical setting has wide spread effects on the patient, hospital, and themselves. Physicians undergoing high levels of stress are more likely to change jobs, place less emphasis on teamwork, have higher burnout rates, and report less practice autonomy. Even more significantly, physicians who work […]
What’s for Dinner?
I’m sure many med students find themselves in a similar predicament during their clinical years. The struggle of finding time to prepare home cooked food, versus constantly eating out, or worse, eating hospital food. Also, just the expense from eating out the majority of the week is a killer. Recently, I had to really stop […]
