Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I am grateful for the many people and classmates who helped babysit so that I could make it to the lab and thrive as a medical student. I am grateful for my sister who stepped in to help once I became a third year medical student and needed to spend more time away on rotations.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm not going to lie, after two years of working in the urgent care setting, being in the ER was super chill for me. My favorite moment was probably when we had a laparoscopic appendectomy (appendix removal using small incisions and a camera) and the attending stood patiently waiting for a while as I tried to find the appendix.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. When I was a UCSF med student a quarter century ago, I was behind by a quarter century. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good. Bob recently wrote an essay in JAMA on AI and delivered a UCSF Grand Round s on the same topic.

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