C.J. TRENT-GURBUZ
It’s a part of practicing medicine that has nothing to do with science and everything to do with emotion: delivering bad news. Word choice, said Timothy E. Quill, MD, a physician in the Division of Palliative Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is powerful, and with it clinicians…
The order of operations was straightforward: first, Christina Pugliese, now a second-year MD student at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), applied for a health services scholarship as part of the SMHS global health track; next, after being awarded…
It was two words from his physician-mentor, Stanley Talpers, MD, that struck Matthew Hahn, MD ’97: “Be there.”
For David Acosta, MD, chief diversity and inclusion officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the examples kept piling up: a medical student whose patient referred to her as “the colored girl;” a Latino professor, celebrating his PhD at an upscale restaurant, who was twice…
Interprofessional education, or IPE, has quickly risen to the top of the alphabet soup of medical acronyms. The idea is that as health care philosophy shifts to a patient-centered, team-based approach, effective communication between providers —physicians and specialists to nurses and pharmacists,…
When Cheryl Silverbrook, MD ’13, RESD ’17, BS ’09, heard that her residency director, Jennifer Keller, MD, RESD '07, MPH ’07, was moving to a new position — director of the Division of Education within the George Washington University (GW) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — she wanted…
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Physical Therapy (PT) program received a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) at the organization’s spring 2017 meeting, a triumph that…
Alison Heru, M.D., interim chair and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Denver, had a 60-year-old patient, Mr. D, who had been diagnosed with end-stage lung disease. He was on the transplant list, but the nurse on duty reported he was angry and exhibiting signs…
The words of Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Maya Angelou, and even Shel Silverstein drifted through the crowd of George Washington University (GW) and VA health care professionals at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center Library on April 24. All had gathered for the Third Annual Poetry Fest, held in…
The tale he’d been asked to tell, said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at the Heart and Vascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was about Symplicity HTN-3, really “a story of…