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Creativity, M.D.: How I merge creativity and medicine
Doctors are supposed to uphold a certain amount of gravitas, and I think I do (insert frowny face), but I would go crazy if I couldn't express myself. How do I stay creative and fresh within the parameters of emergency medicine? Let me show you the ways.
Emergency physician at Cornwall Community Hospital
Doctors are supposed to uphold a certain amount of gravitas, and I think I do (insert frowny face), but I would go crazy if I couldn't express myself. How do I stay creative and fresh within the parameters of emergency medicine? Let me show you the ways.
Creativity, M.D.: How I merge creativity and medicine
1.
How I merge creativity with medicine
Creativity, M.D.
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
2.
• Study Mnemonics
When I had to memorize the periodic table,
I’d chant “H-He-Li-Be, B, CNOF-Ne, NaMg, Al
SiPS ClArK. Ca!”
3.
• Ask patients’ stories
A patient read my palm in
medical school and told
me I’d write an important
book. Years later, I wrote
that scene into my novel,
Terminally Ill.
4.
• Locums
Lots of people do locums when they start out: a fun way to doctor people and go strange places.
5.
• Working Random Shifts
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
Ben Casnocha
Image by Stuart Miles on FreeDigitalPhotos.net
6.
• Working with Dr. Who
(I mean, working with anyone I’m scheduled with)
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts
between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty,
comfort and fear. -David Allee
•http://www.deviantart.com/art/Portrait-Of-The-Plague-Doctor-381309120
7.
• Community Hospitals
My friends thought I was nuts, but now some cool doctors are coming to join me.
8.
• Pulling a Patch Adams
•I wore a costume to
the ER on
Hallowe’en.
9.
•Joining tertiary pediatric &
French hospitals
Now I have privileges at four
hospitals in three towns. I’m
officially insane.
10.
• Integrative medicine
I teach yoga and,
although I don’t
talk about it, I’m
certified in Reiki.
11.
•Online courses & coaching
In the future,
I’d like to
teach and
coach
online.