Medscape Blogs - Ethics & Professionalism

• How to Move From Defensive to 'I Have This!' An experienced nurse provides scenarios in which effective communication avoids confrontation and frustration despite an overwhelming workload.
  Medscape Blogs, May 18, 2022
• Finding Your Wolfpack in Academic Medicine How I learned to surround myself with like-minded people in academic medicine to no longer feel "out of place."
  Medscape Blogs, May 10, 2022
• The Mental Health Sacrifice of IMGs' Search for Perfection Medical students must be perfect in everything they do. But that pursuit of "perfection" can have devastating consequences.
  Medscape Blogs, April 26, 2022
• RaDonda Vaught: Victim, Felon, or Both? An experienced nurse discusses the implications of the RaDonda Vaught guilty verdict for nurses who may be angry or fearful for the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• With or Without Children: It Is None of Your Business As a physician in my thirties, people assume I have children -- or even worse, negatively judge me for not. What do I tell them? Why have I chosen this path? Find out why it really is nobody's business.
  Medscape Blogs, April 12, 2022
• Moral Courage in Nursing: Do You Have It? An experienced RN discusses the times in her career that caused the most heartbreak, including instances that defined the concept of moral courage.
  Medscape Blogs, March 31, 2022
• Double Standards in Medicine Won't Allow Me to 'Calm Down' An experienced nurse discusses the frustration of female nurses working in a predominantly male environment.
  Medscape Blogs, March 15, 2022
• We Are Failing People With Chronic Pain An experienced nurse discusses why the healthcare community is failing those who suffer from chronic pain, with huge implications for an aging American workforce.
  Medscape Blogs, March 01, 2022
• The Moral Injury of COVID: How Will Nurses Survive? An experienced nurse outlines the differences between burnout and moral injury, with emphasis on the distress caused by an unrelenting pandemic.
  Medscape Blogs, February 11, 2022
• Enough Is Enough: The Pandemic and Loss of Female Oncologists The Great Resignation is having a profound effect on oncology as new doctors are losing their mentors and role models.
  Medscape Blogs, February 08, 2022
• Intermittent Fasting: What Worked, Proved Challenging A nurse describes how she dealt with the rigors of one of the more successful programs for weight loss.
  Medscape Blogs, January 21, 2022
• The Cell Structure of an International Medical Graduate's Journey How to create your own personal cell structure to get through the USMLE and life.
  Medscape Blogs, January 18, 2022
• Most Americans Approve of the Death Penalty. Do You? An experienced nurse explores whether capital punishment works as a deterrent to violent crime.
  Medscape Blogs, December 29, 2021
• What on Earth Does 'Fully Vaccinated' Mean? A nurse becomes increasingly worried as clarity around the phrase "fully vaccinated" evolves during a time of booster injections and new variants.
  Medscape Blogs, December 08, 2021
• I Forget Names All the Time: Could This Be Alzheimer's Disease? An experienced nurse (and aging baby boomer) discusses the rising impact of Alzheimer's disease on society and healthcare.
  Medscape Blogs, November 24, 2021
• Take a Break to Boost Productivity Resting won't kill you, but not resting will end up killing your productivity. How one oncologist learned the hard way.
  Medscape Blogs, November 23, 2021
• Fired for Speaking Out! Could It Happen to You? A nurse discusses why providers were terminated during the pandemic and why these examples serve as a warning to other professionals.
  Medscape Blogs, November 12, 2021
• The Power of Crying: Why You Should Let It All Out! How one oncologist has come to realize that a good cry is good for the soul.
  Medscape Blogs, November 09, 2021
• Nurses Are Feeling 'Utterly Broken' and Exhausted: Is Help Available? An experienced nurse discusses why the moral injury of the pandemic is rarely visible, and why recognition of mental health needs is so important.
  Medscape Blogs, November 01, 2021
• Younger, African American Women, and Men, Get Breast Cancer Too An experienced nurse breaks down the facts about breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and why it's more than a disease impacting middle-aged women.
  Medscape Blogs, October 15, 2021