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An insider’s view
A summer program to encourage diversity in the health professions shows college students a clearer path to becoming a doctor—by acquainting them with the art, science and culture of medicine.
It’s nearly 1 a.m. on Sunday morning of the July 4 weekend, and the constellation of examination cubicles and work stations in the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency department is as peaceful as a library. Patients who have already been treated rest comfortably on stretchers while awaiting rooms upstairs. Meanwhile, doctors and nurses review files, check...
Fighting the good food fight
Yale’s Kelly Brownell has turned concern about obesity and the American diet into a national debate about our “toxic food environment.” Not everyone is pleased.
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Closing the gender gap
When Barbara K. Kinder, M.D. ’71, HS ’77, trained at Yale three decades ago, surgical residents were just that: resident surgeons who virtually lived at the hospital. They worked grueling 128-hour weeks, and overnight call alternated with “short” days that ended at 10 p.m. or later. This went on for five years. If the residents of that era ever felt worn down or resentful, or if they ever longed for a schedule change to attend a wedding or hit the ski slopes, they kept it to themselves.
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