Simon Auster, MD, was a family physician, psychiatrist, and medical educator who had extraordinary insight about practicing medicine but absolutely zero interest in drawing attention to himself. His students and patients had the good fortune of having him as their teacher or doctor but far too few have benefited from his wisdom. Today we discuss some of Simon's saying's -- "Simonisms" -- that are remarkable because they are not the usual cliches one hears. Some challenge us to reconsider our assumptions. We share and discuss them because we believe they can help many doctors, those in training, and those who train them find more joy and meaning in their work. You can learn about Simon in an online (open access) essay about his life, published in The Pharos, the journal of the AOA medical honor society.
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Medical Gaslighting: Why Are We A--holes?
Urine Drug Screening: How it can traumatize patients and undermine the physician-patient relationship without helping anyone
Pursuing a Medical Career While Black: What it Takes and Why it Matters
Rescuing medical professionalism: Could “cup-of-coffee conversations” do more good than committees and letters-to-the-file?
Why Residents Unionize
Opioids and the physician-patient relationship: What are we getting wrong?
False Positives Traumatize Patients...If Clinicians Aren't Careful
Healing Interactions: What are they made of?
Kind People on Airplanes
When an attending yells at a resident
When your patient has a Swastika tattoo
About me being racist: A conversation that follows an apology
The Dartmouth Debacle: Why the culture of medical education needs to change
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Engagement and Boundary Clarity:
Judgementalism
Contextualizing Care: What it means and why it matters
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