My Experience: Attending Medical School in Cuba
During one of my breaks from medical school in Cuba, I rotated at a US hospital. I was rounding with a third year Family Medicine resident who had a patient with a pleural effusion that needed draining. The resident had not done a thoracentesis before and the attending asked him to locate where he thought we should insert the needle into the patient. He was not comfortable with this and went to get the Ultrasound. While we waited with...
Family Medicine Revolution: The Evolution
Our hashtag #FMRevolution (aka Family Medicine Revolution) was born in 2011. At the time, my aims were two-fold: “Become the physician you wrote about in your personal statement.” That family physicians and other primary care providers realize we are better than what the status quo values us at and we need to ‘revolt’ against the currently fragmented health care delivery machine that exists right now (we’ve been...