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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 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 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 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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