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  • 2/14/2025

    Meditation with Melissa

    There are so many purported health benefits of meditation—but it can be tricky for doctors to slow down and actively do an activity that feels like doing nothing. Here's how I approach meditation.
  • 1/21/2025

    A friendly reminder to stop killing people

    Sometimes as a physician, you're the patient. But what can you do if things are going horribly wrong with your care and no one is listening to you?
  • 12/31/2024

    Plane crash

    In a small ER, as the only doctor, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes recalls taking control in a rare situation at her tiny hospital.
  • 11/4/2024

    The ‘L’ Word

    No, not the TV show. In medicine, we have an ‘L’ word we all dread.
  • 10/11/2024

    The risky doctor

    We crave security but we can’t try new things without risk—so how to strike the balance?
  • 10/10/2024

    Are you making the top clinical mistake?

    Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes writes that maybe the biggest mistake is losing friendship with other physicians.
  • 9/26/2024

    The worst electronic medical record system!

    Among things Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes found while locuming in Newfoundland.
  • 8/23/2024

    Dr. Wineass in Newfoundland

    More adventures and new phrases: Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes continues her locum in N.L.
  • 8/9/2024

    So you want to be a doctor in Newfoundland?

    Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes takes a locum in N.L. but oh, the paperwork to get a license in another province!
  • 7/29/2024

    Grateful bred

    How do you nurture gratitude in your patients?
  • 7/4/2024

    How to survive ‘quality improvement’

    Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes offers some take-home lessons after being chosen for QI project by her college of physicians and surgeons.
  • 6/15/2024

    The case of the kidney killers

    When we swear to do no harm, it’s not only in our day-to-day interactions, writes, Dr. Yuan-Innes. We have to recognize systemic biases, not only in how we act but also those baked into our tools.
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