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We are proud to announce the publication of the next Pager Publications, Inc. print book, The Perfect Doctor, curated by Dr. Sasha Yakhkind and featuring 40 narratives written by patients, physicians and trainees about the imperfect pursuit of an ideal.

Learn more about the book at http://theperfectdoctor.org. You can purchase the book at http://tinyurl.com/theperfectdoctor.

All members of Pager Publications, Inc. are unpaid volunteers, and all book proceeds go to support the website hosting costs of our fellow online peer-managed publications, including in-Training.

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Pediatric Vaccine Schedule

Your mom gets tetanus (Tdap) before you're born, Plus COVID and flu are the norm. After your birth you get Hep B, plus some erythrom

New on in-House, poetry by pediatric resident physician Holly Ingram, MD, MPH.

"Shots at two months

are Hep B part two,

But Rota, Hib, DTaP,

pneumo and polio are new."

https://in-housestaff.org/pediatric-vaccine-schedule-2023

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The Life of a Medical Student: A Photo Essay

During my medical school journey at the University of Maryland, I created this photography series as an introspective representation of my e

New on in-House, a brilliant & personal photo essay about the various phases of #Medstudent life. Captured by resident physician Ankur Vaidya, MD while he was a medical student.

https://in-housestaff.org/the-life-of-a-medical-student-a-photo-essay-1983

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We Had a Choice

My husband and I were pregnant with a child / Then we found out something wild. / I am a carrier of SMA / And this affects me in almost no way.

New on in-House, poetry by pediatric resident physician Holly Ingram, MD, MPH.

"[We] were pregnant with a child, Then we found out something wild.

I am a carrier of SMA..."

https://in-housestaff.org/we-had-a-choice-1979

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Do Individuals from Low-Income Families Belong in Medicine? (Yes!)

Recently, several attending physicians sparked controversy on Twitter by implying that low-income medical students or trainees should not pursue careers in medicine. While these tweets have since been deleted, the systemic injustices that they echo still ring in the highest levels of modern medical education. As a medical trainee from an impoverished household, I have spent almost my entire post-secondary education and medical training as part of an invisible demographic.

And finally, #1 of the in-House #Top10of2021: 

Amy Zhang, MD, MBA, wrote about the invisible demographic of medical trainees from low-income households. A critical read for #meded. 

https://in-housestaff.org/do-individuals-from-low-income-families-belong-in-medicine-yes-1903

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Early Palliative Care and End-of-Life Planning as a Primary Preventative Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has drastically increased the number of critically ill and dying patients presenting for hospitalized management of dyspnea, acute respiratory failure and other serious complications. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 has created unprecedented demands on all avenues of inpatient hospitalist medicine. One of the many services in high demand includes palliative care, with increased need for complex end of life planning.

#8 of the in-House #Top10of2021:

"[treat] goals of care conversations like an intervention designed to prevent potentially unwanted or unwarranted future complications." 

Amira Athanasios, MD, advocated for treating palliative care as preventative medicine.

https://in-housestaff.org/early-palliative-care-and-end-of-life-planning-as-a-primary-preventative-intervention-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-1914

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It Is Right to Leave: Rank List Decisions as a Minoritized Medical Trainee

My fingers tense. Frozen not of my own accord. I want to do this, but I can’t. I need to do this, yet the anxiety grips at my mind and throat, stalling what should be an easy decision. As a Black, gay medical student in my fourth year, what I’m about to do has so many repercussions and permutations. So much so that I feel stuck, unable to be decisive when decisiveness is necessary.

#2 of the in-House #Top10of2021: 

 "I deserve to be somewhere where people don’t call minoritized individuals 'unprofessional' as coded #racism."

Chase T.M. Anderson, MD, MS, reflected on #minorities & the Match process. 

https://in-housestaff.org/it-is-right-to-leave-rank-list-decisions-as-a-minoritized-medical-trainee-1901

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Internalizing Medicine: Starting Intern Year in the Time of COVID

In my home city of Washington, D.C., citizens have taken the changes brought on by COVID-19 very seriously; social distancing, masking and frequent hand hygiene are now routine. These days, I am startled when I see the bottom half of someone’s face out in public. Our homes have become our sanctuaries. In the hospital, however, much of our work continues unabated. Orders are written, notes are signed, lab work is drawn, imaging is performed. Housestaff are on the front lines with nurses, respiratory therapists and patient care technicians taking care of the sickest patients day-in, day-out.

“By definition, social distancing has increased the physical and emotional space between us.”

New on in-House, resident physician Keanan McGonigle, MD, MPP, reflects on COVID-19′s impact on interns.

https://in-housestaff.org/internalizing-medicine-starting-intern-year-in-the-time-of-covid-1906