Creativity, M.D.How I merge creativity with medicine
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
• Study Mnemonics
When I had to memorize the periodic table, I’d chant “H-He-Li-Be, B, CNOF-Ne, NaMg, Al
SiPS ClArK. Ca!”
• Ask patients’ stories
A patient read my palm in medical school and told me I’d write an important book. Years later, I wrote that scene into my novel, Terminally Ill.
• Locums
Lots of people do locums when they start out: a fun way to doctor people and go strange places.
• Working Random Shifts
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. Ben Casnocha
Image by Stuart Miles on FreeDigitalPhotos.net
• Working with Dr. Who
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts
between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty,
comfort and fear. -David Allee
(I mean, working with anyone I’m scheduled with)
•http://www.deviantart.com/art/Portrait-Of-The-Plague-Doctor-381309120
• Community HospitalsMy friends thought I was nuts, but now some cool doctors are coming to join me.
• Pulling a Patch Adams
•I wore a costume to the ER on Hallowe’en.
•Joining tertiary pediatric & French hospitals
Now I have privileges at four hospitals in three towns. I’m officially insane.
• Integrative medicine
I teach yoga and, although I don’t talk about it, I’m certified in Reiki.
•Online courses & coaching
In the future, I’d like to teach and coach online.
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