This is a wonderful essay from a unique perspective. I would love to be living my life to the full like Dawn is when I'm her age!

#medmastodon #medicine #health #healthcare #medschool #residency

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/24/medical-school-late-in-life-np-to-md/

I started medical school at 69 and will begin residency at 72. Here’s what I learned

Starting residency at 72 isn’t for the faint of heart. But that’s what Dawn Zuidegeest-Craft is doing.

STAT
#MedMastodon and #nicuverse - maybe you followed Dr Bryan Vartabedian’s writing on Tw (AKA Doctor_V) and on the blog 33charts.com.
He is now doing the ”Liminal MD” podcast (+ writing on liminalmd.substack.com) , IMHO today's most intellectually stimulating thoughts about the wider scope of medicine.
For ex, listen to the discussion w John Lantos how ”... AI isn't the beginning of medicine's identity crisis. It's the culmination of one that started two centuries ago.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-aura-of-the-physician/id1796042259?i=1000756023069
The Lost Aura of the Physician

Podcast Episode · The Liminal MD · March 18 · 39m

Apple Podcasts

Eröffnung von BeCAT & Si-M 🎉: #CharitéBerlin und @tuberlin stärken Forschung für neue, innovative Therapien. Ziel: Krankheiten besser verstehen und gezielt behandeln.

👉 https://www.charite.de/service/pressemitteilung/artikel/detail/feierliche_eroeffnung_der_forschungszentren_si_m_und_becat

#MedMastodon #WissenschaftBerlin #Gentherapie #Zelltherapie

Credits: Kevin Fuchs

🤖🧬 Neues Life-Science & #AI Investival - made by #CharitéBerlin & starken Partner:innen: Vom 9.-11. Juni vernetzt die bio:cap 2026 Forschung, Start-ups und Investoren in Berlin. Im Fokus: #KI, Diagnostik und neue Therapien.

👉 https://www.charite.de/service/pressemitteilung/artikel/detail/wo_ki_auf_life_science_trifft

#Medmastodon #Forschung #Medizin #Science

I've now had my #FeedingTube for 14 years this month.

At the time, they still didn't know what disease I had and thought it was probably multiple sclerosis.

I've lived a normal life with the feeding tube, (outside of the disease that requires it.)

If people are facing the need for one, I always counsel them that anything they can do without needing one, they can do with one. It's just an alternate food source.

A lot of people think feeding tubes are for end-of-life care and that is the furthest thing from the truth.

Feeding tubes are for the living, not the dying.

#Medical #MedMastodon

For fans of #ThePitt, you might enjoy my second novel about an intern and his peers in 1992 Seattle as they grapple with secrets, burnout, and medicine’s hidden curriculum; a compelling medical suspense with true-life historical elements

2025 Indie Readers Discovery Award Winner (socially conscious fiction category)

“A gripping read that will stay with you long after you close the book” - The Big Thrill

#bookstodon #books #medmastodon

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-committee-will-kill-you-now-jl-lycette/7b4b09f6c19628ab?ean=9781685133122&next=t

Also free on #kindleunlimited

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