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Blood pressure treatment is more than lowering a number. Here are five things I consider when choosing, monitoring, and sometimes removing medication.
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Although all physicians carry the title of "Doctor," it is remarkable how different physician careers can be. The work hours, salaries, practice settings, call responsibilities...the…
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I’ll be the first to say that the water in every Emergency Department I’ve been in has tasted kind of weird, but what in the sweet heavens are they drinking on HBO’s “The Pitt”?
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In early November, we threw a few blankets into my wife's SUV and headed to Carmel, NY. We walked into a pet store hosting a PawSafe dog adoption event. We had been eyeing a couple dogs…
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I want to share some exciting news regarding my life. My wife and I moved back to New York.
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As we enter a new year, many people are inspired to adopt healthier lifestyles, often with weight loss as a central goal. The statistics are sobering: approximately 74% of U.S. adults…
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On this beautiful sunny Sunday in Chicago, I sit in my resident workroom on a call shift. C-c-c-all. So boring and unfortunate, you couldn’t even make a Tik Tok about it. And although I…
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Seemingly with a few blinks of an eye, I am half way through Family Medicine residency. As my inbox collects recruitment emails, I am promised “outstanding opportunities” from…
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It has been over a year since I made the move to Lincoln Park, Chicago, and what a journey it has been. Nestled on the north side of the city, Lincoln Park is a vibrant neighborhood…
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With the hopes of going somewhere warm for about a week but also facing the reality of my resident physician salary, I scrolled through the Carnival Cruise website and secured a cabin in…
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On a Sunday afternoon on a surprisingly blue-skied Chicago day in January, I question which is more futile: the New York Jets offense or my efforts to extinguish this nagging knot in my…
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This Goodwill smells funny. It’s the weekend before my first residency interview, and I’m in Jacksonville, Florida during one of my audition rotations. I’m in need of a suit jacket; I…
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It has been a minute, y’all. I graduated medical school and moved to Chicago to begin Family Medicine residency! A blog post about this transition is incoming, but not too soon…so don’t…
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Are you headed to medical school? Congrats! I’m sure you are already getting a taste of the sacrifice involved in this journey, from your FAFSA application to the hefty deposit needed to…
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Not knowing where to begin, I bring up previous Match lists for alumni of my school. Solidified in my choice to pursue Family Medicine, I browse the programs and cities of interest. I’m…
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Medical school education is expansive. Some doctors will look back and scoff at the minutiae: how much did we really need to know about Tay-Sachs disease or c-ANCA/p-ANCA? Nevertheless,…
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It’s the crux of humorous Tik Tok comments regarding an amped up guy or gal. At the micro level, we are bamboozled by the aggression of UFC’s Dana White, Barstool Sports’ David Portnoy,…
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Omicron is surging. The efficacy of existing vaccines are in question, but the medical community still highly regards the shots. In less than a year, Pfizer and Moderna became household…
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With the recent spike in Delta variant cases, we are once again reminded of how COVID-19 affected our lives in those scary March 2020 days. Medical students were not immune from the…
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The 64 gigs on my iPhone 8 weren't cutting it anymore. I grew tired with the constant pop-ups yelling at me for not having enough storage. There was only so much off-loading, deleting,…
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Hello friends! With the country slowly recovering from COVID-19 and an overwhelming sprint to get people vaccinated, I'd like to introduce my first article covering the pandemic. I have…
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My Bluetooth speaker beeped. During an enjoyable bike ride in the small rural Upstate NY town where I was doing my third year rotations, the familiar beep denoting a low battery level…
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The following writing sample is from an assignment in my third year Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine course. This was written within 24 hours and demonstrates a baseline competency in…
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On a crisp Long Island night in December 2018, I exhaled in new freedom and triumph. I had returned home after what seemed like an academic bootcamp, exhausted from a rigorous first…
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The miracle of birth may be more encompassing than you'd expect. Ever since a 6 year old boy with Fanconi anemia was treated successfully with cord blood in 1988, many parents have opted…
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I was a college sophomore at Binghamton University, and I had just walked into a research event at Quinnipiac University on a Sunday morning. I shepherded a research poster on…
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The granola-pour felt different this time around. As I made my breakfast on a frigid Wednesday morning, my stomach curled as the hosts of the "Up Next" NPR podcast described a startling…
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I recently reached out to a high school friend, Emily Weis, who became a Pediatric Cardiac ICU Nurse. We spoke about her job, her feelings towards nursing, and her path to where she is…
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I finish my dinner and go directly towards my room. It's the tahini sauce, man---I...I just can't. As I brush my teeth from the foul taste of what I thought was hummus, I look in the…
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Happy Chinese New Year! As the historic and economic Asian giant celebrates the Year of the Pig, it's important to acknowledge the ingenious and valuable contributions China has…
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After all these years of D.A.R.E. instruction, I was shocked it took this long. Time after time, we looked at colorful pamphlets that demonstrated how drugs, like alcohol, tobacco,…
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With the Spring semester starting up for college students, those looking to apply to medical school know what's up. While AAMCAS and AACOMAS (the two major centralized application…
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In 2017, congressional Republicans proposed a $100 billion dollar healthcare package that incentivized exercise by allowing gym memberships to become tax-deductible medical expenses¹.…
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As a former EMT, I am sometimes asked questions about Emergency Medical Services (EMS). We all have had an ambulance whiz past us, blasting its sirens. Sometimes, however, you may see an…
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As we all remember from high school English, Shakespeare wrote the iconic line, "O Acai, Acai, wherefore art thou Acai? Deny thy science and refuse thy sugar; or if thou wilt not, be but…
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Physical education has been a peculiar staple in American education for over a century. In my idealistic mindset, I feel that most people would agree that it is important that kids of…
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It's the medical elephant of the century. Sometime around 8 years ago, headlines surrounding opioid abuse infiltrated newspapers and social media alike. We were raided by large images of…
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You know someone who takes it legally. With their doctor's approval, they obtain cannabis from a dispensary, and--theoretically--they use it to treat various ailments, perhaps muscle…
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Today is Christmas, and although millions of people across the country rejoice with friends and family, there may be some eerie undertones spreading through the masses.
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