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Ryan Montoya, M.D.

About Ryan Montoya, M.D.

Dr. Ryan Montoya is a family medicine physician, comic book artist, and writer. His medical practice focuses on opioid narcotic dependence. He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and completed his undergraduate and medical studies at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He has received art training at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Joe Kubert School of Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Art Institute of Boston. He has lived and worked in the US, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and India, and is currently working on a full length graphic novel.

Fantasyland Memorial Clinic "Quality Measures"

By Ryan Montoya, M.D. - December 20, 2018

Fantasyland Memorial Clinic - a new medical humor comic presented by HospitalRecruiting.com.

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Fantasyland Memorial Clinic Quality Measures

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Choose My Medical Specialty

By Ryan Montoya, M.D. - February 19, 2019

Choosing the right medical career is, like any other form of employment, filled with philosophically wondrous but functionally useless platitudes. The adage “do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life” decorates countless commencement speeches and career day addresses. Maybe that works for some jobs. In medicine, that strikes me as a bit backwards.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Choose My Medical Specialty

A Question of Centimeters – Navigating the Tricky Waters of Surveillance and Watchful Waiting

By Ryan Montoya, M.D. - May 16, 2019

How long do you wait for a centimeter? In this case, we waited just 6 months. Not because of conflicting abdominal aortic aneurysm data, but to assuage a woman’s very reasonable fears. And to make sure she could get the imaging study done at a feasible cost -- and because of broken water pumps and rabbit pies.

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A Question of Centimeters – Navigating the Tricky Waters of Surveillance and Watchful Waiting