Medscape Blogs - Dr Giancarlo Toledanes

• Stop Calling Children Resilient Children have reached their mental health limits with the pandemic. The resilience narrative is not helping their recovery.
  Medscape Blogs, March 07, 2022
• Cruising During a Pandemic Another COVID surge threatens to sink a frontline physician's highly anticipated cruise vacation.
  Medscape Blogs, February 23, 2022
• Cultural Humility in Medicine: Moving Beyond Race and Ethnicity In an effort to become more patient-centered, healthcare has adapted initiatives to become more culturally competent. But is cultural competence enough to address health inequities?
  Medscape Blogs, December 03, 2021
• Letting Go: A Life Lesson at Home and at Work When it comes to teaching, sometimes you have to let go. How a father's proud moment becomes a metaphor for his work.
  Medscape Blogs, November 17, 2021
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Death of the Linear Career Path A career in medicine will often follow a predictable sequence of events. Can this sequence be disrupted and still result in success?
  Medscape Blogs, October 19, 2021
• Healthcare Consumerism: Is the Customer Always Right? Will the application of market theory to healthcare solve its most pressing problems?
  Medscape Blogs, October 11, 2021
• What I Learned From My Kids During the Pandemic The best teachers in life often do not have a college degree and still drink juice boxes.
  Medscape Blogs, September 17, 2021
• The Other Epidemic: Violence Against Healthcare Workers The escalation of violence against healthcare workers is reaching a tipping point. How do we protect ourselves as we continue to protect others?
  Medscape Blogs, August 30, 2021
• Ambiguity About COVID: A Not-So-Surprising Challenge The only thing certain in the COVID-19 pandemic is uncertainty. Can ambiguity be managed and effect positive change?
  Medscape Blogs, August 20, 2021
• 5 Tips for Feeling Less Guilt When Calling Out Sick Do physicians and other medical professionals get sick? Yes, we do. Then why do we feel guilty about calling out? Here are tips on how to handle it and stay guilt free.
  Medscape Blogs, July 30, 2021
• The COVID-19 Child Pioneers A pediatrician and father reflects on a parent's choice to enroll their children in the COVID vaccine trials and finds a historical parallel.
  Medscape Blogs, July 15, 2021