![]() Sydney is an active member of Aenon Baptist Church and serves in the Alpha Youth Performing Arts Ministry, as a youth usher and Vacation Bible School counselor. Her leadership skills were demonstrated during her tenure as editor of the Dimensions Club. Twice she received the High Honor Roll Academic Excellence Award. Sydney’s numerous honors include (SOAR) Stress on Analytical Reasoning Program at Xavier University of Louisiana, Science Technology Entry Program Scholar at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. ![]() She is a cellist in the Fairport Orchestra and Founding member/Co-President of the Demonstrate Racial Equality 4 All Mankind Club. Sydney is a member of the National Honor and Spanish National Honor Societies as well as being a Board of Education Student Representative. She graduated from Fairport High School as an Urban League Black Scholar and will attend Xavier University and majoring in Biology and Public Health Policy with the goal of becoming an OB/Gyn physician. How people of faith can respond to our broken health system G.Sydney Barrett is the daughter of Melissa and Basil Barrett.Being an influencer has the potential to be destructive: a physician’s cautionary story Brian Boxer Wachler, MD | Physician.The merry-go-round of rounding Maha Al-Ghafry, MD | Physician.How people of faith can respond to our broken health system G.Who reads personal statements? The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast.A doctor’s foray into online therapy Beverly Joyce, MD | Conditions.Why body type standards are wrong in measuring health Marc Nelson | Conditions.Amazon, CVS, and Walmart are playing health care’s long game Robert Pearl, MD | Policy.We tell our stories, but who will listen? Michele Luckenbaugh | Conditions.Adding more team members is the wrong answer to decreasing physician burnout Rebekah Bernard, MD | Physician.We need to talk about the bullying in health care Aldebra Schroll, MD | Physician.Telemedicine is not medicine Andrew Ross, MD | Physician.A hospitalist’s struggle to find teamwork in academic medicine Fareeha Khan, MD | Physician.Punishing doctors for spreading misinformation Lydia Green, RPh | Policy.A doctor explains 10 misconceptions about abortion Elisabeth Poorman, MD | Physician.How you’re being tricked into buying lotions, potions, and wrinkle cream Fayne Frey, MD | Conditions.Provider me not Earl Stewart, Jr., MD | Physician.Who gets to graduate from medical school? Heidi Chumley, MD, PhD | Physician.To most of us, efficiency is moving faster … but what if moving slower and more deliberately is actually how we create efficiency? Despite the scattered attention, a concept inseparable from our profession, I began seeing things clearly. Time spent with patients felt longer yet, I was rarely running behind. With regular practice and gentle discipline, I became resigned to the idea of never being done and focused on doing. All the while, the clocks around me kept ticking. In an effort to achieve maximum efficiency, I was rushing and multitasking, both of which led to mistakes and ultimately created more work for me. Much like the stuttering second hand of a dying watch - was I burning out? With introspection, I realized the culprit was efficiency. To stop myself from reaching whichever breaking point I was accelerating toward, I hit the breaks and started to search, or rather, re-search for what I knew I once had. Still, for this high school “mathlete,” a week of vacation never seemed as long as a week in the ICU.Įven as I gained knowledge and fostered my clinical competency, whatever amount of wonder was left continued to fade. Shockingly, in all this perceived slowness, the work became a blur - akin to the trees zooming by a fast-moving commuter train. The more I looked at the clock, waiting for 5 o’clock to come, the slower it seemed to arrive. The excitement and wonder of becoming a doctor that I felt as a medical student had passed as quickly as 80 hours did in a week. The hard work was setting in, and I found myself rushing toward the end of each day, wondering if I’d made the right choice. Lo and behold, inaugural moments of internship transformed into hurried hours and then into dismaying days. Then, it was time to be one - intern year. In fact, the “present” is such a gift that the verb and noun for it are identical.Īs a medical student, I couldn’t wait to get started as a doctor. Such a fascination with constant timekeeping has robbed us of ever being fully present in the present. No matter where we look: car dashboards, microwaves, and the multi-functional faces of Apple Watches, which dare tell time once in a while.
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