It’s that time of the semester again! Time for my last passion blog of the semester 🙁 Last semester, I took this opportunity to reflect on my experience writing about alternative medicine and how it changed my perspective surrounding my career choices. I want to do something similar today, but I’d like to take a […]
Bomb Cyclone
Welcome back to my blog! This story today was one of the most stressful days of my year at St. Luke’s, which is interesting given the circumstances that brought it up. This one is not clinical (yay for all my squeamish friends!), so let’s get into it! If any of you remember early 2021, […]
Rough Draft: Issue Brief
Revising the FDA’s Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood While Sexually Active The 1980s and 1990s brought us rock and roll, The Breakfast Club, Forrest Gump, and a lot of nostalgic haircuts and fashion statements. It also brought us the AIDS epidemic and all the medical and legal atrocities that came with it. Since […]
HIPAA
You know what time it is….. It’s time for Nat’s weekly passion blog post!!! I’d like to touch on an aspect of medicine that not many talk about. As a healthcare worker who works close to my hometown, I see a lot of people I know come into my hospital. However, I am required by […]
Issue Brief Introduction
Here is the introduction to my Issue Brief: Revising the FDA’s Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood While Sexually Active. The 1980s and 1990s brought us rock and roll, The Breakfast Club, Forrest Gump, and many nostalgic haircuts and fashion statements. It also brought us the AIDS epidemic and all the medical and legal […]
Best Phone Calls Ever
Welcome back to Nat’s passion blog! This week, I thought I’d tell you all about my favorite phone calls I ever received while working in the lab. Since there have been a few serious blog posts recently, I thought I’d instead tell you some funny stories, since healthcare isn’t all serious. Hope you enjoy! […]
Blood Donation and LGBTQ+ Rights
Welcome back to Nat’s civic issues blog! This week, we are going to discuss an issue that is very close to my heart. As many of us probably know, the FDA has very strict requirements for anyone interested in donating blood, and there is one antiquated rule that is directly discriminatory against a protected class. […]
Two Stories, One Post
Welcome to another installment of Nat’s crazy hospital stories! I’ve decided to tell not one, but two stories today (since both are pretty short). Today’s a fun one, so let’s get into it! First, I want to tell you all about a different side of being a healthcare worker (a particularly dangerous side). For […]
Inequities in Emergency Medicine
Photo Welcome back to Nat’s Civic Issues blog! I hope you enjoyed my last blog analyzing the racial disparities in maternal medicine. Today, we are going to continue with our exploration of racial bias in medicine, but we will be learning about the inequities in emergency medicine. There are a lot of factors involved in […]
Oops, I Popped His Lung!
Picture Link Welcome back to Nat’s passion blog! This week, I want to talk about an intense story from my time in the hospital. Fair warning, I will describe exactly what happened during this procedure in detail, so read at your own risk! As I mentioned last week, one of my jobs in the lab was […]