Wellness

Culinary Medicine

While working as a medical scribe for primary care physicians in a mainly integrative medicine clinic, almost 80% of the visit notes include a diagnosis of morbid obesity or obesity. It’s come to the point that I know these icd10 codes by heart. E66.09 and E66.01 are codes that I type over and over throughout...

A Look at Thalassotherapy

Two summers ago I studied abroad in Germany and Austria to learn about the history of medicine in Europe through a Texas A&M University faculty-led program. While in Germany, I was surprised to learn that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices seem to be in much wider use across its population than I had expected....

Apps Recommended by First-Year Medical Students

I am about two months into my first year of medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and it’s been going, to say the least! Our curriculum uses a block schedule and we are about two thirds of the way done with anatomy. I wanted to take the time to share some apps...

Wellness Wednesday: Standing in Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide

“The United States loses the equivalent of one small medical school or a large medical school class to suicide each year.”1 Fellow medical and pre-medical students, this is a call to action to stand together to help change the culture of education in our schools and that of our future workplace environments, to remove the...