Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members.

Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members.

It's a fine line that divides the healer and the sick -- and learning to walk it will be one of my greatest challenges in becoming a doctor.

I wish we hadn't had to resuscitate her, that she could have gone to the grave with her ribs intact. This patient's life was over, my career just beginning, and I hope I never forget that sometimes death unimpeded is a blessing.

Doctors are privy to — but not really part of — patients' most private moments

I’m running out of time. It was right there on the vital signs monitor clock: 30 minutes left to finish the patient’s history and do her physical. And here she was, a real talker, expounding on the pros and cons of Obamacare.

Never mind the little black dress; Coco Chanel’s most lasting contribution to the world of style—and, unfortunately, to dermatology—may well be the suntan. For centuries, in a fashion statement freighted with racial undertones, women around the world coveted a fair complexion.

A first-year medical student encounters her first cadaver: in dissection class.

It's never too soon for medical students to have their first patient encounter

My very first patient died — twice.

Less than a week after our White Coat Ceremony —

Women are indispensable to the U.S. military. But when they get home, often suffering from mental or physical injuries, the veterans face a new battle: coping with a medical system still tailored to men