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Dr. Taylor Bates is happy she landed at Baystate, where she is focusing on pediatric emergency medicine.
time for these doctors. It’s a broad learning experience and an opportunity to gain invaluable experience in their chosen field and perhaps narrow the focus when it comes to how — and even where — they want to spend their careers.
It’s a time to work directly with patients in their chosen specialty — or not, as in the case of Dr. Ruchi Betel, who chose pathology as her specialty, or had it choose her, as is often the case.
“Today, people believe in more evidence-based medicine,” she explained. “And we provide the evidence for everything. I believe that everything goes through pathology.”
For this issue, HCN talked at length“with these three residents about how the pandemic has changed their
overall experience in some ways,
but especially about how this
latest step in their medical career
is shaping them personally and in more evidence-based professionally.
Making Matches
Bates is from Birmingham,
Ala. She said that, when she
first started looking at potential
landing spots for her residency,
she focused on hospitals with
pediatric emergency medicine fel-
lowships — and facilities in the Northeast. Baystate checked both those boxes, and after considering several options, Baystate became her number-one choice. Match Day — when candidates learn officially which hospital they’ll spend the next several years of their life with — was somewhat nervewracking, but all was good when Baystate was revealed.
She said she chose pediatrics because she’s always wanted to work with children, a constituency she prefers to adults for many of the same reasons as others who choose this career path.
“In a heathcare setting, kids are really cool,” she told HCN. “That’s because they can be comforted, when sometimes adults can’t. A kid can have the same injury as an adult in the emergency room, and if you can make the kid laugh, he forgets that he has a cut on his forehead or maybe that he’s not feeling so well. I find that adults demand more and have more of a fixation on their
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Today, people believe
medicine. And we provide the evidence for everything. I believe that everything goes through pathology.”