...our soon-to-graduate medical students on Match Day and providing an insider's look at what happens just before and after the envelopes are opened. Check out the excited energy of twins...
...for ophthalmology residency. For everyone else, Match Day was last Friday, March 16th. While I knew where I was going for ophthalmology, I still had plenty at stake - I...
...school every day. It’s nice,” Ryan told PBS. 20-year-old former patient David Llano, who also battled leukemia at the hospital, agrees. Today, David is in college, but he returns to...
...anxiety, Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, offered reassuring words to the 70 Stanford medical students who were waiting to "match" with a residency last Friday. “When you open your envelopes today,...
It's one of my favorite days of the academic year: Match Day, when medical students across the country find out where they'll be headed to do their residencies. (Residency assignments...
...of patients with diabetes use insulin. Source of insulin: In the old days, insulin was made from cattle or pig pancreas. Today, all insulin is made by recombinant technology where...
...they step out of the clinic until the next time they step in." The Stanford students sent their letters on March 14, the day students across the country walked out...
...“Look at you,” he sneered, “wearing your stupid shiny penny loafers. You’ve probably never experienced a day of struggle in your life. How could you possibly understand my pain?” “Sir,...
It’s been about twelve months since the day when years of hard work, lengthy board exams, and countless interviews last culminated in a national letter opening ceremony: Match Day. It's...
Here's the challenge: Try meditating for five minutes every day for one week. Hosted by Stanford's WELL for Life program, the Mind-Body-Spirit Challenge aims to encourage mediation by offering short...
Before I spent a day shadowing a physician recently, I saw emergency medicine as a romantic field, doctors rushing from room to room, saving the lives of patient after patient....
...an important takeaway message from the second annual symposium of Stanford’s Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine, which I attended last week. At the one-day symposium, ten Stanford scientists presented...
...Since its launch in September 2016, the curriculum has evolved to include new nicotine products, but the approach has remained constant. "It's really to talk to youth about manipulation that's...
...two longtime Stanford scientists. And it's the perfect thing to share here, in honor of International Women's Day. Produced by a few of my colleagues several years back, the piece...
...the "best in the world" because she gets to do something different every day. I met up with her to learn more about her work, as well as her experience...
...exception of the crime scene/thriller genre. I would love to see more fiction about everyday physicians and their trials and joys. And I would welcome contact with any medical writers...
