On being an American MD, becoming a MD in The Netherlands:
Part I: Dutch vs. U.S. healthcare systems. July 2021
Part II: Getting Your Medical Degree Recognized. July 2021
Part III: Getting Your Specialty Training Recognized. August 2021
Part IV: Practicing Clinical Medicine or Finding a Job. Sept 2021
Additional blogs:
Perpetuating Bias: The Dangers of Incomplete COVID-19 Data on Health Inequities - Annals Fresh Look Blog, May 20, 2020
Respiratory Disease and Racism Have Reared Their Ugly Heads with COVID-19 - Annals Fresh Look Blog, March 18, 2020
Sowing Seeds and Cultivating Connections for Well-being - I.M. Thriving Newsletter (ACP), Feb 21, 2020
Featured columns in The Observant, the independent university newspaper of Maastricht University.
Why do our healers need to be healed? - During my first training year in Internal Medicine, while finishing a 30-hour hospital shift ending on New Year’s Day, I sunk into that rock-bottom feeling.. beginning my new year with tears and a sense of utter depletion.
Drawing without borders - I participated in a one-hour workshop at a medical humanities conference...The workshop leader, a nurse and cartoonist, provided crayons and paper, and asked us to bring our creativity and open minds.
The diversity of doctoring - What does it mean to be a physician? Providing patient care has long been considered the most noble, intellectual and altruistic aspect of being a doctor.
An unseen risk of being a doctor - When I was an internal medicine resident, a delirious patient kicked me in the gut from his hospital bed.
Guest blogs (2016)
Mobile Apps and Patient Engagement - If you are considering picking an app or wearable to collect personal data, here are a few considerations when you make your choice
What Should I Look for As a Healthcare Consumer? - In a handful of simple steps, I encourage patients or health information seekers of any kind to be critical—even a bit skeptical—when seeking health information on the Internet. To this end, these steps should serve as a starting point toward promoting learning and dialogue, as well as shared decision-making and engagement, between patients and their providers.
Just-for-fun blogs about life in the lowlands (2016-2018) at Dutch Review