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Why I Prescribe the Love Drug →
As a doctor, it’s my job to figure out what patients really need. Some need antibiotics. Some need pain pills. But everyone needs love.
During med school I cared for burned children. One of my patients was a 3-year-old with severe burns over most of his body.
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Why Health Care Lacks Love →
I am a woman doctor, but I inherited a patriarchal medical model. A patriarchal medical model rewards male values.
MALE VALUES:
- Speed
- Volume
- Bigness
- Toughness
- Graphs
- Charts
- Algorithms
- Proof
- Strength
- Fighting
- War metaphors
But I am a woman doctor.
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Love Is Medicine →
It’s Valentine’s Day 1997. I’m at Sacred Heart Hospital admitting a colleague’s patient—an elderly man dying of heart disease. On oxygen, gasping for life, he exchanges no words. His wife—unable to bear the pain of watching him die—leaves the room. So it’s just the two of us this Valentine’s Eve.
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
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Why "happy" doctors die by suicide
Heroic doctor's heart-wrenching letter
How to graduate medical school without killing yourself
Physician Suicide 101: Secrets, Lies & Solutions
Why physicians commit suicide
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