Medscape Blogs - Dr Jennifer Lycette

• Gendered Expectations of Physician Accessibility A research paper validates an oncologist's lived experience with gender-biased workloads, especially related to the EHR, as her daily clinic experience differed vastly from that of many of her male counterparts.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• We All Struggle With the Unwritten Rules of Medical Culture With the recent Match, an oncologist reflects on the challenge of new positions. Trainees shouldn't be made to feel like outsiders until they figure out a hospital's unwritten rules.
  Medscape Blogs, March 23, 2022
• Why Challenging Patients Can Trigger Resentment Challenging patients can make us feel we're not living up to our own unrealistic expectations. A medical oncologist explores two recent books to help physicians and nurses manage resentment in practice.
  Medscape Blogs, February 28, 2022
• Under the Surface, a Reflection on the Movie 'Encanto' Going to the movies with my son reminded me of the value of art and entertainment in our lives, and that it's okay to take a break from our burdens--something that's been missing during this pandemic.
  Medscape Blogs, January 11, 2022
• How Can You Do This? When the Patient's Family Dictates Care A cancer patient in is agony because a spouse refuses any pain medication. How one oncologist was told they could do nothing.
  Medscape Blogs, December 28, 2021
• Fight or Flight, or Something In Between An oncologist reflects on learning to be present in the moment and finding the space in between fight or flight.
  Medscape Blogs, December 14, 2021
• Dear Patient: An Open Letter on Why I've Been Working Part-time A "part-time" oncologist answers her patient's questions about "what she does all day" when she's not in the office.
  Medscape Blogs, November 16, 2021
• Being Human: The Preexisting Condition of Disease An oncologist reflects on our death-denying culture by looking at our one unifying diagnosis: We are all human.
  Medscape Blogs, October 14, 2021
• The World Needs to Collectively Grieve Grief should be a communal process. If we don't acknowledge this, we lose part of our humanity. Dr Jennifer Lycette on how we might be missing collective grief and how we begin a conversation about it.
  Medscape Blogs, September 03, 2021
• A Tale of Two Patients: Female Body Image and Cancer Treatment An oncologist reflects on two patients. One chose to stop cancer treatment rather than gain weight, and another found herself attracting unwanted admirers for extreme weight loss from terminal cancer.
  Medscape Blogs, August 12, 2021
• COVID-19 and Cancer Misinformation: An Oncologist's Viewpoint An oncologist reflects on the endemic of cancer misinformation in our society and the parallels with COVID-19 pandemic misinformation, and where we may have gone wrong in our public health messaging.
  Medscape Blogs, July 27, 2021
• Burnout in Physicians vs Pilots: Who's Flying the Plane? They both work in high-stress, high-stakes jobs. But pilots don't have to obtain prior authorization to execute emergency measures to save passengers' lives. How does pilots' burnout compare with physicians'?
  Medscape Blogs, July 08, 2021
• Shame in Medical Training, and Owning Our Stories Does the medical training culture perpetuate a legacy of shame? A reflection by Dr Jennifer Lycette on how this harms our trainees, and how we can overcome it and change the culture.
  Medscape Blogs, June 23, 2021
• How Toughness Is a Setup for Burnout Do we confuse toughness with resilience? What Jennifer Lycette learned from a patient about the two to avoid burnout.
  Medscape Blogs, June 10, 2021