The Fascinating Relationship That Kids Have With Pain

Reading Time: 3 minutes My clinical experience and observations with pediatric pain and tolerance. If you’ve ever been around a child or an adolescent that is truly sick or in significant pain, you can attest to how difficult it is to handle.  As a medical student, I am not ashamed to say that I was not adequately prepared for […]

AI and Pediatrics

Reading Time: 4 minutes A quick evolution of AI in pediatrics with some of its current uses in pediatric medicine today. The incorporation of artificial intelligence into pediatric medicine has been primarily focused on brain mapping, developmental disorders, oncology, gene profiling, emergency care, and pattern recognition. These processes deal with a glut of data, the amount of which is expansive.  […]

Leadership Opportunities for Physicians and Medical Students

Reading Time: 3 minutes What should physicians, recent graduates, and medical students do to acquire and develop leadership skills? THE PROBLEM As a doctor, I plan to run practices, lead teams, and manage executive boards, all across the globe. It’s ambitious, I know. I prefer to reach for the stars. To fulfill this vision, I decided that I would […]

3 Solutions to Help Hospitals and Doctors Decrease Physician Burnout

Reading Time: 4 minutes Innovative solutions to help doctors decrease burnout and increase efficiency. A thriving private medical practice requires physicians to be at their best so that they can squeeze everything out of every single patient encounter. Over the years, the impossibility of keeping perfect records while juggling large volumes of patients has held this sector back. Luckily […]

Breaking the Wall With Nurses

Reading Time: 3 minutes Respect and Communication Between Nurses and Physicians Most medical students about to embark on their clinical clerkships are simultaneously excited and mildly terrified. This is for good reason, as rotations are an unfamiliar landscape with an added level of responsibility. Up until this point it has been, in large part, a lot of didactics with patient […]

Emerging Roles for Robots in Healthcare

Reading Time: 4 minutes What is the current state and future of robotics in healthcare? Overview Robots are everywhere nowadays. A far cry from the bloodthirsty monsters often found in sci-fi movies, their contributions to healthcare are invaluable. Without them, remote telemedicine would not be nearly as effective and we would not have robotic nurses, the DaVinci Surgical System, […]