Better late than never.  Here is my post from topic week on how medicine has changed me... I've been trying to think of what to write ...

Welcome to MiM Topic Week on our reflections on how our chosen profession has changed us (or not). Throughout the week, we'll feature po...

How has medicine changed me? The honest answer is: for the better and for the worse. Let's start with the latter. Before medicine, I i...

A patient recently eyed me right before a bedside procedure (I was supervising my residents) and asked with one eyebrow raised, “How long ha...

After 11 years of training and going on five years of practice, there is no question that medicine has changed me in numerous ways. Some def...

I like lists so let's go for it: 1. I'm more outgoing Except in certain fields (rads, path), you just can't be as good a doc...

The title for this topic week is change; specifically how becoming a doctor alters one's life.  There is no question of change, only how...

Though I am loath to admit it, I am, by nature, an introvert. And despite the recent torrent of articles espousing the  benefits of being ...

I am in medicine, where I must get out of bed and leave home on a “snow day” after arranging care for my own kids, to de-ice my car, commute...

As someone who went directly from college to medical school, I have spent most of my life in medicine. Medical training morphed all the area...

Since the age of 22 I have been entrenched in medicine-went right from college to medical school and residency. The formative years of my 20...

KC suggested this topic, and I have had to think and think about it. How HAS medicine changed me?  As an uber-idealistic practically socia...

Our next MiM topic week will take place the week of December 9. The topic: How has medicine changed you? Not medicine as in drugs, but medic...

Years ago, I heard my sister tell her then 2-year-old son that she was 'so excited' to go to work. I questioned her motive behind t...