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  • 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.
  • 6/7/2024

    Happy Mother’s Day! (Sorry, internist)

    Sure, Mother’s Day has passed this year but Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes reflects on the evolution of her feelings about working that day.
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