by Shawn Jones | Feb 22, 2021 | Physician Stories
The Compassionate Scalpel Hope is a Good Thing In the classic movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins character, Andy Dufresne says, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” The dictionary definition of hope is desire with an...
by Shawn Jones | Jan 31, 2019 | Physician Stories
Shared Decision Making The Burden of Everything Possible [original article] A gradual loss of weight brought him from the institution which had cared for him for decades. A CT scan demonstrated the monstrous mass which enveloped a large portion of the left side of...
by Shawn Jones | Sep 26, 2018 | Physician Burnout
[original article] NBC premiered the new medical drama, New Amsterdam, Tuesday, Sept. 25. Dr Max Goodwin is the new medical director at a large urban public hospital. The series is inspired by Bellevue, the nation’s oldest public hospital, but also draws inspiration...
by Shawn Jones | May 21, 2018 | Physician Burnout
[original article] It is no secret that President Trump’s nominee to run the Veterans Administration, Navy Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, has withdrawn his nomination amidst allegations related to his behavior: that he drank on the job, was a bully in the office and...
by Shawn Jones | Nov 28, 2016 | Physician Stories
[original article] Just a minute before, I had been in surgery checking on the status of a patient who was undergoing an exploratory laparotomy. She had been doing okay, but deteriorated relatively quickly that afternoon while still in the hospital recuperating from...
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