Family Medicine Vital Signs

Learners and teachers in family medicine providing insight on health care.

Empathy: The Best Kind of Medicine

May 29, 2018

Here I sit, in our closet of an ICU workroom, my left leg is locked straight in a rather cumbersome brace. ACL surgery was 3 weeks ago and I’m struggling to work the 12 hour days while fully participating in the rehab process. My husband still has to help me put my compression socks on … More Empathy: The Best Kind of Medicine

When Doctor’s are in the Sick Role

May 17, 2016

By Lauren Willis-Wood, MD “I’m so sorry you’re here at 3 AM”, I say for the millionth time and smile sympathetically at parents sitting with their irritable, stuffy and feverish baby in the ER room. In the midst of respiratory season and in the middle of my month rotating in the Pediatric ER, this scene … More When Doctor’s are in the Sick Role