Inside Stories

Jena Martin MD

Jun 30
5 min

Hospital Food

#HealthcarePathologies series Imagine if you worked at a hospital that had a McDonald's in the lobby. Since McDonald's has become shorth...

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Jena Martin MD

Jun 24
4 min

Lies we tell ourselves: Innovation

Without our market-driven healthcare system, we won’t have world-class American innovation. Innovation is one of American’s favorite word...

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Jena Martin MD

Jun 14
5 min

Healthcare Pathologies

First in a series of #HealthcarePathologies posts I haven’t posted this photo because you can easily see my scar and how it has misshapen...

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Jena Martin MD

May 25
4 min

I wish I knew...

I’ve seen recent Instagram posts going around about surviving intern year, which is when I have to confess my imposter syndrome. I’m not ...

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Jena Martin MD

May 2
5 min

SNOUT & SPIN

Almost no one is good at evaluating medical tests. Not politicians. Not medical journalists. Not the general public. And often, not even ...

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Jena Martin MD

Apr 1
3 min

Homeschooling?

I’m a pathologist, and I’ve got some tips for effective home teaching! Want to get your kids enthusiastic about biology? I love to share ...

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Jena Martin MD

Feb 3
5 min

Overdiagnosis - Part 1

I've been reading a lot about Overdiagnosis and it's usual progenitor, Overtesting. As a pathologist, I've got a perspective I could add t

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Jena Martin MD

Jan 29
1 min

Affirmations

Do you like affirmations? Read my essay published on Salon to see how I feel about them.... https://www.salon.com/2020/01/18/live-laugh-l...

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Jena Martin MD

Dec 16, 2019
4 min

When I was very little, a man lived inside my ear.

Oddly, he only made appearances to pound on a piano, usually as I lay in bed. I imagined him with long tuxedo tails that he’d ostentatiou...

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Jena Martin MD

Oct 25, 2019
3 min

Halloween and the inevitability of death

Plastic skulls? Glitter-encrusted hatchets? Decomposing zombies at the door? Nothing matches the real thing.

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Jena Martin MD

Jun 22, 2019
2 min

Diagnosis Decision: The Great Imitator. ⠀

If there's a rash or alopecia with a pattern I can't explain, it's time to order this stain.

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Jena Martin MD

May 16, 2019
4 min

Margarine and the sun.

2019 has been quite the bad year for sunscreen and it's not yet summer in my hemisphere. Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about a th...

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Jena Martin MD

May 15, 2019
4 min

Don't fall into the confidence interval.

How to feel good about your decisions when you don’t feel good about yourself. (A longer version of this essay appeared on Doximity - htt...

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Jena Martin MD

Apr 20, 2019
3 min

Nosology

What is the name of your disease? Nosology is the act of naming and classifying disease. (No, I don't mean Nose-ology, which actually doe...

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Jena Martin MD

Apr 6, 2019
1 min

Diagnosis Decisions - Not Melanoma

***Great Moments in Pathology TM*** This is not melanoma!⠀ It is especially satisfying because it came in from the clinic as a suspected ...

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Jena Martin MD

Apr 1, 2019
1 min

Diagnosis Decisions- Endocrine

***Great Moments in Pathology TM*** I knew instinctively what this disease was. It didn’t even feel like a decision. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ That’s the be...

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Jena Martin MD

Mar 21, 2019
1 min

Diagnosis Decisions - Pagets

***Great Moments in Pathology TM*** This cancer carpets the underside of your skin. It grows over, up, down and sometimes out. ⠀⠀ ⠀ It’s ...

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Jena Martin MD

Mar 19, 2019
2 min

Time looking at fences

Imagine if you will staring at a chain link fence. That’s it, usually a white background, nothing else to cloud your view. The light is ...

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Jena Martin MD

Mar 13, 2019
3 min

Study Prep

I have spent a lot of my life studying. One thing about studying - everyone has an opinion about how you could be doing it better. The s...

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Jena Martin MD

Mar 9, 2019
2 min

Visual Literacy

It takes a lot to impress a cynical med student, but that's what the pathologist did. I heard from her at the end of an 'M&M' conference ...

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