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By Aishwarya Kumar
Code Black probably reminds people of the now famous and heartbreaking episode of Grey’s Anatomy while Code Red calls back to a number of fire-related network series. Code Lavender, however, is a relatively new hospital code that began in 2008 with Earl Bakken at North Hawaii Community Hospital and has since been recently implemented in a variety of health care systems.
Read MoreFeaturing Kevin Milligan, Priya Roy, & Kortni Ferguson
Co-Founders Priya Roy and Kortni Ferguson sat down with Kevin Milligan, from UnsCripted Medicine, to discuss their personal experiences with losing a patient during medical training. In this episode, they also discuss what inspired them to pursue work in bereavement and grief, why losing a patient can be so difficult, and advice for students who have experienced the death of either a patient or someone close to them.
Read MoreBy Aishwarya Kumar
Since I was a first year medical student when the virus began its global spread, I underwent a period of uncertainty before state mandates were put into place. Would we be sent home to finish off the rest of the semester online? Would we still be able to finish our degrees on schedule if we could not follow accreditation guidelines?
Read MoreBy Johanna Shapiro, PhD
Other emotions seem easier to acknowledge – stress resulting from the burdens of constant studying, examinations, and evaluations; moral outrage and righteous anger at institutional and societal injustices; anxiety and depression arising from “imposter syndrome,” the sense that one doesn’t belong, isn’t good enough to be in medical school. But how does grief factor in?
Read MoreBy Darrell Phillips, Kortni Ferguson, and Priya Roy
And it’s an active exercise to remind yourself of who you are and what you value. Sometimes you have to check in with yourself and ask: What are my values when it comes to being a physician? And do I have to be the physician who discovers the next big thing? Or is it okay to say, “I want to be a physician, and that’s enough. I don’t have to be Physician of the Year.”
Read MoreBy Theora Kvitka and Catherine Oldershaw
Our intention with the exhibit was not to gloss over the challenges that come with the reality of being a neighbor. Beyond just interacting with each other, maybe what people need is to evolve their notion of “neighbor” beyond just positive idealism to the complex nature of these relationships: good or bad, weak or familial, dependent or isolated.
Read MoreBy Pamela Wible, MD
I’ve become a sideline specialist in medical student and physician suicide. Why? Mostly because I can’t stop asking why. Why both classmates I dated in medical school died by suicide. Why we lost three doctors in town to suicide. Why my cell phone feels like a suicide hotline. Why I’ve received hundreds of letters from suicidal doctors and medical students.
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