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By  Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

A column about the joys and pains of medical residency

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Dear Atul Gawande: As you go on your listening tour, don’t forget about mental health

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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The patient was saying sexist things. How I handled him made me part of the problem

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My ‘sunken place’: Having to call police when I know it could be deadly for my black patients

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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‘Don’t trust your patients’: What Larry Nassar’s boss gets very, very wrong

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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People with mental illness can make psychiatric advance directives. We need to encourage them to do so

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Here are my New Year’s resolutions. Some of them apply to medicine as well

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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#MeToo: So many of my patients have a story. And absorbing them is taking its toll

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Match matters: Here’s some advice on how to interview for your residency

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An elderly doctor was struggling. I spoke up. Then came the ‘snitch guilt’

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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How a kidney stone taught me that medicine has changed me

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My medical school lesson was tinged with racism. Did that affect how I treated a sickle cell patient years later?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Two little girls, two similar paths to medicine, but one difference: immigration

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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I went to medical school in Charlottesville. I know white anger well

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Prescribing opioids: Balancing pain relief and addiction prevention haunted my early days in medicine

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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A text message helped one of my patients stay in control of his health. Here’s how

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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When my patient died, I imagined what his life had been. Then I learned the truth

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Working at the ‘top of my license’ means I sometimes have to say no

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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What Henrietta Lacks’s story taught me about trust and my role as a doctor

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My job was to mentor this student. Instead, I left her behind

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Patients come first, but do doctors’ feelings still count?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Why I’ve learned to leave blank spots in some patients’ medical records

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While I was treating a patient, his friend slapped my hand. Why did she think that was OK?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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How do young doctors find balance after a 28-hour workday?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Trump’s immigration order could stop medical careers before they begin

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Balancing my work as a doctor and my work as an activist is getting harder and harder

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Police brutality is a public health issue. Money can solve the problem.

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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I was eager to see the Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ in health care. But no one looked like me

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My patient insisted on checking out. I knew she should stay. But she held all the power

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How my grandmother’s heart attack changed the way I practice medicine

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