Maternal-fetal medicine doctors should not be forced to choose between saving patients’ lives and protecting themselves from criminal jeopardy.
David Hackney | Aug 17
Toward the end of her life, artist Beatriz da Costa and her oncologist forged an unexpected partnership, exploring the fragile intersection of art, science, and mortality.
Daniela Lieja Quintanar & Ana Briz | Feb 13, 2025
The history of the total artificial heart is punctuated with both brilliant innovation and continual clinical failure.
Sian E. Harding | Feb 14, 2023
Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.
Kathryn T. Hall | Jan 12, 2023
"My body is as if someone had drawn a vertical line separating the two halves. The right half seems to be twice the size of the left half."
Moheb Costandi | Sep 29, 2022
There are times when the art of medicine and caring for others involves practicing a singular type of expertise — a willingness to be human.
Jay Baruch | Sep 12, 2022
Medical school didn’t prepare us for our greatest challenge: facing the void with our patients.
Nicole M. Piemonte & Shawn Abreu | Feb 1, 2022
Thinking may have become easier, but thinking big is as challenging as ever.
Michael Bhaskar | Dec 13, 2021
“The spoken language is our most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool, and we must be as precise in its use as is a surgeon with a scalpel.”
Eric Cassell | Oct 28, 2021
Some health care providers, even those already vaccinated, have developed patient hesitancy and are reluctant to leave the comfort of telehealth.
Mikkael A. Sekeres | May 3, 2021
