Rada Jones
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Plattsburgh, NY, United States
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A physician's guide to surviving COVID winter
How can you survive this winter holding on to your temper, family, and job? → Read More
Patients vs. customers during COVID
COVID-19 did a lot of harm to many people: patients, families, health care workers. But there's a silver lining. This pandemic reminded us that medicine is not retail, and patients are not customers. → Read More
So you want to be a doctor? Here are 10 myths debunked.
Good luck, young friend. I hope you decide you really want to be a doctor, whether they pay you, they appreciate you, they like you, or not. → Read More
How masks are like your underwear
Both masks and underwear exist to contain badness. Neither works 100 percent, but they’ll curb the worst of the spill. → Read More
Something’s rotten in America’s health care
We got far away from those touching patients making decisions for their care. We’re ensnared in a net of rules and regulations compiled and enforced by untouchables who would do anything to keep their job. Anything but touch a patient. → Read More
Why good doctors must say no
Saying no is hard. Even harder if you happen to be kind. You want to help, to make people smile, you want them to like you. Saying no doesn’t come easy. → Read More
Why toilet paper? A doctor tries to explain.
Remember: We, humans, survived through millennia without toilet paper. And, believe it or not, some still do. → Read More
The idiot's guide to coronavirus from an emergency physician
Take it easy. The worst part of all this is the fear. → Read More
24 reasons to not vaccinate your kid
I’ll offer you a compromise: Don’t vaccinate all your kids. Only vaccinate the ones you want to keep. → Read More
What's the hardest part of a physician's job?
The hardest part of my job is the guilt. I never, ever, do everything I should. Not well enough, not fast enough, and never perfect. → Read More
What makes the perfect doctor?
The perfect doctor knows they aren't perfect. Nobody is. Perfection doesn't exist. Looking for perfection is like chasing the Holy Grail: It takes you far from what you love, and it never ends. → Read More
Why choose a woman doctor?
Like all doctors, I’m a lousy patient. My doctor is a lovely man, but going to see him? That’s right there with weighing myself, getting a flu shot and doing my taxes, and behind celebrating Thanksgiving with the in-laws and getting a root canal. → Read More
Why this physician never tells anyone she's a doctor
Telling people I’m a doctor never leads to any good. → Read More
A mercy killer in the ER
Back in the ER for her next shift, Emma struggled to keep up. It was not a good day. Five psychiatric patients on hold, waiting for a place to go. No beds upstairs, so the ER had to hold admitted patients. Two nurses called in sick, making them short-staffed. The shit was pouring like rain. Emma hoped it wouldn’t drown her. → Read More
Why doctors make bad patients
I’m a doctor. And, like most medical professionals, I’m a bad patient. → Read More
40 pro tips for your loved ones' ER visits
Follow these tips for a smooth ER experience. → Read More
Sex in the elderly is not a need. It's a privilege.
Sex in the elderly is both a challenge and an opportunity. Like walking with a walker, it’s clumsy, but it gets you there. → Read More
Can you put me to sleep? Why ER physicians have to say no.
Please, please get your advanced directives and talk to your proxy, will you? And never sign up for DNI without DNR. → Read More
The sweet path to hell: addiction in medical professionals
Good luck to all our patients struggling with addiction. It's a hard place to be.And good luck to all of us. We need it. → Read More
Why are we hemorrhaging emergency nurses?
Like it or not, this is emergency nursing today. → Read More