Keiren D. Smith, M.D.
Associate ScholarKeiren D. Smith, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University and is a medical internist based in New Haven, CT. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and earned her medical degree at The Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, Ohio. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Smith practiced as an internist in Connecticut. While at Yale, she was awarded the Etkind Teaching Award by the Yale Medical House Staff. Dr. Smith has participated in clinical drug trials as an investigator and is a consultant to pharmaceutical companies. She is currently working on a National Institutes of Health study in transfusion medicine at Yale.
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Anniversaries and Obamacare
Today is the one-year anniversary of the big surgery: 78-pound, five-foot-tall “M’, 87 years old and a feisty New York native, was operated on for tongue cancer. The surgery meant removal of half her tongue followed by its reconstruction using the long muscle of her forearm. It included removing all the lower teeth on one side and a long incision with careful dissection of the muscles of her neck. The operation included a skin graft from her thigh to cover her arm wound.
Why Reading “Why I Froze My Eggs…” Scrambled My Brain
The Friday, May 3, 2013 Wall Street Journal essay, “Why I Froze My Eggs (and You Should, Too)” astounded me in many ways and left me with an overwhelming sense of sadness for the misguided author, Sarah Elizabeth Richards. Reading this career woman’s personal account of the tragic “wasting” of her prime dating years in her 20s and 30s, leading her to ultimately spend $50,000 and find herself “lying naked on a cold operating table in a foreign country while a stranger tries to harvest - egg by precious egg - the last of your fertility…” in order to “own her desire to be a mom” makes me wonder where feminism and medicine have gone so woefully wrong.