DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS | Yan Emily Yuan
© Differential Diagnosis by Yan Emily Yuan. Spring 2020 Intima A Journal of Narrative Medicine
“What does a sore throat mean these days? Is it strep or some other bacterial infection? Could be the flu. Or do we need to run The Test? Maybe, just maybe, could it be allergies?”
Yan Emily Yuan, MD, MSc is a 2014 graduate of the Master of Science program in Narrative Medicine. She is an internal medicine resident physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and will be starting her endocrinology fellowship at the same institution in July 2020. She practices meditative painting and finds inspiration in her patients’ narratives, her day-to-day life as a medical resident and the natural environment.