by Lissa Rankin | Aug 14, 2011 | Physical Health
When I decided to put my white coat back on, I committed to reclaiming what I love about medicine and ditching what I’ve come to despise. In fact, after leaving medicine – supposedly for good – I had to expand and redefine “health” and change the whole way...
by Lissa Rankin | Jul 5, 2011 | Physical Health
Last week I wrote about the Doctor-Patient Relationship of the broken, outdated, patriarchal health care system of The Old Medicine. Today, I’m going out on a limb to suggest a new kind of Doctor-Patient Relationship, the kind I practice and I hope others in the new...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 6, 2011 | Physical Health
I’ve tried to leave medicine at least a dozen times. Medicine and I are like that couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together again, the ones you’re sure are done this time, only they kiss and make up and ultimately wind up engaged, leaving you partly...