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Creativity, M.D. How I merge creativity with medicine by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.

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Page 1: Creativity, M.D.: How I merge creativity and medicine

Creativity, M.D.How I merge creativity with medicine

by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.

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• 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!”

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• 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.

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• Locums

Lots of people do locums when they start out: a fun way to doctor people and go strange places.

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• Working Random Shifts

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. Ben Casnocha

Image by Stuart Miles on FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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• 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

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• Community HospitalsMy friends thought I was nuts, but now some cool doctors are coming to join me.

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• Pulling a Patch Adams

•I wore a costume to the ER on Hallowe’en.

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•Joining tertiary pediatric & French hospitals

Now I have privileges at four hospitals in three towns. I’m officially insane.

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• Integrative medicine

I teach yoga and, although I don’t talk about it, I’m certified in Reiki.

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•Online courses & coaching

In the future, I’d like to teach and coach online.