Sarah Yahr Tucker

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Why don’t doctors feel like heroes anymore?

Author:: Sarah Yahr Tucker

Publish date: November 22, 2023

“None of us are invincible,” and it’s dangerous to forget that “the people behind the symbols are also human.”

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MDs with chronic illness live in a different medical world

Author:: Sarah Yahr Tucker

Publish date: June 5, 2023

Along with the physically demanding schedule of medical practice, they must cope with what many call a “culture of invincibility” within medicine.<...

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Doctors and dating: There’s an app (or three) for that

Author:: Sarah Yahr Tucker

Publish date: February 13, 2023

Medical training can consume decades when others are exploring relationships and starting families.

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Why it’s harder for MDs to lose weight

Author:: Sarah Yahr Tucker

Publish date: November 7, 2022

A doctor set out to create a weight-loss program rooted in the physical and mental demands of medical practice. In the process, she lost 45 pounds....

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Dr. Birds-n-Bees: How physicians are taking up the sex ed slack

Author:: Sarah Yahr Tucker

Publish date: September 23, 2022

Only 29 states and the District of Columbia mandate sex education, and 13 of those do not require that it be medically accurate.