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When I first started in medicine (I graduated from medical school in 1986), things were simpler.  Notice I didn’t say things were better.  Compared with today everything in medicine was less complicated.  For one thing, patients didn’t have the number of co-morbidities that they have today, so in general, the average hospitalized patient wasn’t asRead more

Some advice as you graduate and head into residency training. During residency (and really for the rest of your medical career), you will find yourself having to juggle a huge number of competing priorities: your more senior residents and attendings, the electronic medical record, other administrative issues such as hospital administrators and patient satisfaction surveys,Read more