Tag Archives: Medical Establishment
When good care isn’t emotionally driven care
Hello, folks! I am slowly getting over not matching. Slowly. I am trying to strategize for the next match. And, I’m trying to take care of myself, emotionally and physically, in the aftermath. In the meantime, I am on my … Continue reading
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Hands on in the boondocks
Howdy. I have been busy, as usual. Not only working at a new rotation site, which has been wonderful, but driving more than three hours a day to get to and from this site. Our medical school requires that we … Continue reading
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Lamentations
Please, run, don’t walk, to the series called Lamenting the System at the Unnecesarean. It is a series of responses from practicing ob/gyns to an article called “An Obstetrician’s Lament” by Annette E. Fineberg, MD, which was published in the … Continue reading
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When routine care is not evidence based care
I am studying for my shelf exam (my end of rotation exam, for those of you not well versed in the jargon) on ob/gyn. I am using one of a popular series of board review books. Every single question in … Continue reading
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Catching Babies Blog Series: Refusal, Rights and Balance
This is an entry in the Catching Babies Blog Series, a conversation with medical economist and author J.D. Kleinke about his new novel, which focuses on ob/gyn residents at the end of residency and the beginning of private practice. Hilary: … Continue reading
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Catching Babies and Match Day
Go check out Jill’s post Catching Babies Blog Series: Fear, Faith and Perverse Incentives at the Unnecesarean. To all of my former classmates who are finding out where they match for residency tomorrow, and all of their medical school cohorts … Continue reading
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Catching Babies Blog Series
I am participating in a blog series on Catching Babies, a novel about obstetrics and gynecology training by health economist J.D. Kleinke. As a medical student on her obstetrics and gynecology rotation who is (hopefully!) staring down an obstetrics and … Continue reading
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