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.