RVU medicine and physician loneliness

Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, talk about spending the holidays in the hospital, take a holiday quiz, and Nick reads the winning essay from the American College of Surgeons' RAS essay contest. 

Host Nick Andrews and Dr. Emi Okamoto discuss how patients should choose their doctors. Plus, Kristen Aliano Messina, MD, a plastic surgeon in Plano, Tx., talks with Nick about resiliency in surgical residents.

Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, discuss the new Nike shoe for "Everyday Heroes," Google enters the EHR space (sort-of), and the American Medical Association gives a total of $125,000 to a group of 570 Hahnemann residents for relocation and other fees such as immigration proceedings. The guest this week is David Fajgenbaum, MD, whose book, Chasing My Cure documents his struggle with Castleman Disease as well as his fortitude to use his medical training to find a cure and unite the cause.