There are doctors that patients see. And there are the doctors that patients almost never see.
Patients see me, an obstetrician, at prenatal visits, in the ultrasound unit, or on the labor floor. But they don’t see all the wise radiologists reviewing their imaging studies, or the educated pathologist assessing whether their biopsy is cancerous. Some of the most important doctors that our patients don’t see are the ones in the …
When I graduated from my residency, far from my current professional home, I wanted to write a book called How Not to Get Yelled At in the Operating Room. Or How to Clear the Fear from Your OR.
I had these titles in mind because I struggled so much during my intern year. It was a tough year, full of intense patient care and sleep deprivation, but the challenge that I most wanted help …
Women in the Bronx get sick.
Pregnant women in the Bronx get really sick.
The patients of the Bronx live in a hard place that has some of the poorest zip codes in the United States. And if there’s anything I’ve learned from my medical training as a fellow at Montefiore — and now as an attending in maternal-fetal medicine — it’s that poverty can make you sick, not just theoretically, or …
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