Author: Jennifer Yang
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 3 of 4
November 7, 1998 Saturday This is part 3 of Eternal Medicine, the emergency room. It is nothing like the clean, orderly emergency room on TV’s E.R., but it can be as fast-paced. After 4 weeks in the wards, our block moved on to the AMMU for 2 weeks. AMMU stands for Adult Major Medical Unit, […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 2 of 4
November 7, 1998 Saturday This is part 2 of the 10-week epic called Eternal (Internal) Medicine. Please send me a note if you did not receive part 1, as I (stupidly) forget to note down which subscribers received part 1. I forgot to tell you in the last issue that during the 4-week stay in […]
Nurses are Superheroes
A lot of the published fiction and nonfiction prose in the medical humanities deals with physicians. Think Atul Gawande’s books and Robin Cook’s novels (Elaine and I did a term paper for that in our college Humanities 103 class looong ago). Same thing with TV shows – the likes of Dr. Kildare, Doogie Howser, M.D. […]
Sport Athlete or Performing Artist? Shared Issues in Sports and the Arts
I’ve mentioned previously that some of my Rehabilitation Medicine (Physiatry) colleagues have additional training in Sports Medicine. While it is logical that there’s overlap between the two (for example: figure skaters can fall under both fields), there are similarities and differences between the athlete and the artist. The Athletes and the Arts initiative was borne […]
Internal (Eternal) Medicine: Part 1 of 4
November 2, 1998 Monday HELLO TO [my captive audience] ALL [old and new] SUBSCRIBERS OF MY ONLINE E-MAIL JOURNAL OF INTERNSHIP! Think you missed an issue? Wrong. The journal had been out of circulation for about 2 1/2 months due to computer inaccessibility…. In other words, I haven’t been home since August (or was it […]
Unique Issues in Performing Artists: Part 1
In a previous blog post, I wrote about the health issues shared by sport athletes and performing artists. Hat tip to the Athletes and the Arts initiative for promoting these health issues. Despite all the similarities, the worlds in which athletes and artists move in are not the same at all. Their mindsets, training and […]
Who Practices Performing Arts Medicine?
Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) was my gateway to Rehabilitation Medicine (Physiatry). I wanted to know how to best address the musculoskeletal issues of performing artists, and found PAM sometime in medical school. Rehabilitation Medicine (Physiatry) does not have a monopoly on PAM, but as a specialty it fits PAM very well. We physiatrists focus on […]
A Deeper Dive into PAM
We’ll start off with what it is not: PAM is not: it is not the use of music/dance/art as a means of doing therapy. Music therapists have their own expertise, as do dance therapists, art therapists and therapeutic recreation (or recreational therapy) specialists. Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) is the branch of medicine addressing the overall […]
How I Got Here: Choosing a Medical Specialty
The Personal Statement is part of the residency application packet for specialty training in the USA. It complements the curriculum vitae detailing the applicant’s education and previous experience, and the recommendation letters from faculty members or other people that have worked with the applicant. My Personal Statement began with “I was the Orthopedic Disaster of […]
Rehabilitation Medicine (JOINT journal entry)
August 22, 1998 Saturday Dear everyone-on-my-generic-on-line-journal-of-internship mailing list, Hello! This installment of the journal is about my 2-week rotation in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, which happens to be my specialty of choice. Duh? For people who do net know about this young field, Rehabilitation (a.k.a. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, PM&R or Physiatry) is called […]
