When you get that sinking, panicky feeling in the face of a decompensating patient, remember Addisonian Crisis. –Sarah Adams
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Medical students are like kids in an orphanage. Pick one and make them your personal responsibility. Get to know them as a family friend. Become a mentor. Help them navigate residency and job applications and the pain and joy of becoming a doctor. Adopt one today!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
You don’t have to be a genius. It’s an open book test. I answer 98% of all medical questions at the bedside using my cellphone, a Google search box, and the names off the two things my patient has that most people don’t have.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Your voiced complaint could spoil the optimism and enthusiasm of a young doctor forever. Your optimism and love of your work could strengthen a young doctor through an entire career. –Mark Reid, MD
Choose your words carefully. You patients will repeat them back to you–verbatim–years later. –Mark Reid, MD
Friday, September 23, 2011
It is a common experience that men do not always appreciate their blessings and advantages. Those who are the best off are the least sensible of it. –William Osler, MD
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Stand up bravely, even against the worst… Even with disaster ahead and ruin imminent, it is better to face them with a smile, and with the head erect, than to crouch at their approach. –William Osler, MD
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
An internist writing in a patient’s chart “Chest pain, rule out MI” is comparable to an ER doctor writing “Head trauma, rule out gun shot wound to the head.” –Anonymous
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
To many of a somber and sour disposition it is hard to maintain good spirits amid the trials and tribulations of the day, and yet it si and unpardonable mistake to go about among patients with a long face. –William Osler, MD
Monday, September 19, 2011
Behind anger is always hurt. –Rev. Dr. Stephen Wilson. The patient who is angry and not hurting is probably afraid. –Mark Reid, MD