分类目录归档：health
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in 2012
after years of being a perfectionist a
people pleaser
and an overachiever i hit a wall
a wall of burnout exhaustion
defeat grief and what i deemed as
failure
i was a working mom of two
in the summer of 2013
i had the opportunity to be a part of an
internship program
that granted minority college students
exposure
to health professions that lack
diversity
this internship was a great
the medical profession
may be doing harm to patients and
communities
many years ago as a first year medical
student i took an oath
like thousands of physicians before me
and thousands of physicians af
so
with my topic do you think i'm going to
talk about the elephant
in the room the elephant that
we're taught not to talk about in public
the one that can be dangerous not
physically but socially and
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i've often heard people say
that kidney stones are as painful as
delivering a baby
and my wife and i would often debate
whether this was true or not so we
decided
let's duke it out she got pre
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when
sarah came to my clinic a couple of
years ago
with her eight-year-old son tim
and she had a problem because her son
was bedwetting
and that's not a good problem if your
child is eight yea
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those
people that population
the poor neighborhoods on the west side
they don't follow our recommendations
it's not our problem
only the migrants are getting infected
the community is not c
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let's talk about
charles you may have seen charles
sleeping in the park asking for change
on the sidewalk
opening the convenience store door
karate fighting an invisible opponent
surro
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invisible
epidemic that's an unusual combination
of words
epidemic we all know i mean we've lived
through the last year
where we've heard it almost every day on
television
or some news media o
the national academy of medicine
released a report in 1999 titled
to air is human the goal of the report
was to highlight the thousands of deaths
that occur each year
due to errors in the healthcare f