So you didn’t match into residency this year?
Being apart of graduate medical education is one of the more fulfilling roles I serve as a physician.
17 tips on how to choose the right doctor
In today’s day and age we are asked to make a lot of decisions on our behalf of our own healthcare..
Should Adults Get A Measles Booster Shot? [Find out why]
With measles outbreaks hitting record numbers here in the United States I discuss the need for a measles ..
What happens when your ‘healthy’ friend doesn’t get the flu shot.
Before we get into this week’s blog post I want to make my stance very clear that I STRONGLY believe that unless you are allergic to the flu vaccine then you should have no choice but to get it. As a health professional I have not had a choice on whether I wanted to get …
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Lunch and Learn Survey
I can tell you one of the biggest perks of being an attending physician is that people generally don’t ask if you know how to treat a certain disease because they assume you do because you’re an attending physician. I can also tell you that as an attending physician because people stop asking if you …
7 reasons why you need a patient advocate
Patient advocate – a individual/organization who helps guide a patient through the healthcare system Two years out of residency and I started noticing a very troubling theme in the health care system I was apart of. Here I was, a doctor who with all the best intentions couldn’t do right for my patients because of …
Want to know how my first year as an academic physician went?
So from time to time I get the urge to write about a topic that doesn’t necessarily fit the mold & content here on DrPierresBlog.com so I end up not writing anything at all. Well, that has changed as I now have a new blogging account from Medium.com, where I will be able to write …
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The myth of the perfect physician
The Drama: I am honestly not sure where the myth began, probably before I even knew that I wanted to be a physician but somewhere down the line the public has been led to believe that every physician in the world not only has excels as a physician but excelled as a medical student and …
Residency selections are in and now the wait
Unless you are just joining the Lunch and Learn Community or maybe you have been living under a rock for the past 6-7 months then you are already aware that I took a job as a Program Director & Director of Medical Education for an Internal Medicine residency last year pretty much leaving the outpatient …
True Life: My doctor isn’t on social media
4 Days 96 hours 5760 minutes 345600 seconds That is how much time my website was down but it honestly felt like an eternity. I was so excited that day too, I was ready to publish my blog post on Whether your doctor is a good leader and I hit the submit button and got …