Akhilesh Pathipati is a second-year medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is originally from Sacramento, California, and graduated from Harvard College in 2013. While in medical school, Akhilesh has published articles in the Sacramento Bee and the Stanford Scope Blog. Here, Akhilesh
Internist William Osler (1849-1919), one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, is often considered a founding father of modern medical education due to his creation of the first clinical clerkship and residency programs for medical trainees. He is also one of the most quoted physicians. This article
Dr. James Legan has practiced internal medicine at his office in Great Falls, Montana (a town of under 60,000 people) for 22 years. Within the last year, he has rediscovered a love of painting. This has led him to paint portraits of his parents, profiles of
In a recent interview I read in the Harvard Gazette, poetry professor Helen Vendler discusses her inspiration for becoming an expert on poetry. Vendler was the first woman to be named a University Professor at Harvard. Much of her inspiration for studying poetry, it turns out, comes from
To my doe-eyed high school self, “research” was a term thrown around in ivy-covered college admissions tours, nightly news reports, and the wellness section of the Times. I imagined pipettes, fluorescently lit blobs of green appearing in petri dishes and evoking “Eureka!” moments, and the
Many aspects of medicine have changed over the course of human history. Schools of thought shifted from humorism to evidence-based medicine, while the standard of care evolved from bleeding to our modern cornucopia of interventions. Yet across centuries, the doctor-patient relationship has remained relatively constant
The social media network for physicians and medical students, Medstro, is holding a “The Joy of Medicine Challenge” in partnership with the healthcare technology company Geneia to find innovative solutions to combat burnout in medicine. They are asking physicians and medical students to pitch creative solutions to restore
In his recent article arguing for the importance of an education in the humanities, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof says that liberal arts are needed to guide the most practical, rational, logical discoveries of science and technology in the right direction. He writes
I read through all five parts of physician Robert Wachter’s article on Medium, “How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose.” In it, Wachter chronicles the steps of oversight and technology-enabled errors that prompted a nurse to give a pediatric patient at UCSF Children’s Hospital 38.5 times
I came across this post, “Wild, Crazy, and Creative Doctors” that lists some examples of how creative doctors have improved their practices. My favorite are the most simple ones, like this: “Marshall Zaslove, MD, a physician productivity expert, advises doctors to have a nurse follow
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) loved law, writing, and medicine, and jumped from one to the other until he settled on medicine as the career that brought him the most satisfaction, despite precocious success in poetry (his 1830 “Old Ironsides” poem was instrumental in stopping the planned
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“My memory has grown weak; there is a lack of sequence in my ideas, and when I put them on paper it always seems to me that I have lost the instinct for their organic connection; my construction is monotonous; my language is poor and
The Bellevue Literary Review is holding a spring reading in the rotunda of Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Sunday, May 3 at 5pm. The evening will include readings of poetry and prose from the latest issue of the Bellevue Literary Review. Check out
The organization Costs of Care is holding an essay contest for short (500-700 word) entries about the importance of cost awareness in healthcare. The site instructions include: “Entries will be judged based on the quality of the writing and the relevance of the anecdote to
The Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) is a literary magazine published by the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. The name refers to NYU’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the U.S. The BLR editor-in-chief is Dr. Danielle Ofri, a prolific writer for the New