Let’s talk a little bit about health equity and my experiences related to health equity. First of all, what is health equity? In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides the following definition: “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity […]
The Hardest Part of Inpatient Internal Medicine
I will tell you that being on inpatient internal medicine wards is just tough—it’s one of the tougher months during residency. Typically, patients are very sick. I’m at the VA, so many of them are much older and/or at the end of their life. And let me tell you, that is HARD! Besides the incredibly […]
Loving Medicine
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” […]
