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POV: It’s 8 AM on a Monday, you’re 2 espressos in, just fought traffic on the 101 and I’m here to check your blood pressure as soon as you sit down! 😆
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What I hope that we as the medical community, and Figs as a company, can learn from the past 48 hours is that impact is so much more important than intent. As a PA, I empathize with my DO and RN colleagues. I know how frustrating it can be when the general public isn’t informed about your profession, your skills, and your qualifications. As a woman in medicine, I felt the sting of being represented as “silly” or “ditzy” or “a dummy.” I can’t imagine how hurt our DO & RN family felt when they saw that ad, with their title, created by a brand that is supposed to serve them.
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I was recently interviewed by Thought Catalog on my work in HIV and and misconceptions surrounding living with HIV. The questions allowed me to dig deep and speak personally on what lead me to the field, and what my day to day is like. In this interview, I aim to debunk popular myths about HIV and discuss barriers to treatment and care.
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I’m officially two weeks into my first job out of physician assistant school and I’m so so excited to revisit the ups and downs of getting to this point. I spent the last year agonizing over where I would eventually end up, not knowing exactly what specialty I wanted, and deciding on what items were “job-makers” and “job-breakers”. After many sleepless nights and cheap Spirit Airline flights back and forth from Alabama to California, I feel like I have my thoughts in order enough to blog about my experience finding a fantastic position that makes me excited on Monday mornings.
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Welcome back to Couture In Clinic! If you’re still hanging in there with me after a very long hiatus from blogging, THANK YOU! If you’ve just joined me for the ride, buckle up because things are getting serious. I always like to share things that I wish that I had known before diving head first into the deep end and things that no one (not PA school, not preceptors, not Instagram) prepared me for which is the time in between or the “transition period.”
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Hand writing notes has been my go-to strategy since my freshman year of undergrad and when something just won’t stick, I write it until it does.
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“I now understand why many people encourage primary care as a first job on which to build a strong foundation as a clinician before going into speciality care.”
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Before I started my OBGYN rotation, a former labor and delivery nurse told me that she absolutely loved obstetric work because, “It’s the only time people are happy to come to the hospital.”
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I always thought of myself as a Christina Yang to the core but this month really brought out the Izzie Stevens in me.
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During this month, I internalized one of the most powerful and profound lessons I have ever learned. My preceptor changed my opinion and preconceived notions about patients (and people in general) with one small sentence.. “Everyone is better than the worst thing they’ve ever done.”
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My experience did not disappoint and I was able to first assist a variety of procedures including 10 hour TRAM flap cases, breast reductions and augmentations, liposuction of almost every area of the body, upper and lower blepharoplasties, abdominoplasties, and countless injectables.. Botox, Juvederm, Voluma, you name it!
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