In July of 2016, just as the Democratic National Convention was about to kick off in Philadelphia, a breakfast was held for the Pennsylvania delegates […]
Philly’s not just a town of tinkerers. These highly acclaimed artisans are producing the kinds of goods that are making us a manufacturing town once […]
A great many of the emails Bob Moul sends are time-stamped between four and five in the morning, a detail that makes you feel like […]
Mike Harris is standing in the middle of the street with his feet in first position and his arms out wide, like a dancer waiting […]
The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 27 percent of the approximately 850,000 practicing physicians and surgeons in the United States are foreign-born. I am part […]
This is an extraordinary time for female athletes, especially in the United States. Serena Williams — arguably the greatest American athlete of all time — […]
I traveled to Philadelphia in 2002 for a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) consensus conference to discuss the state of the national kidney allocation […]
I told my patient today that I think she’s going to die. Not because she has any one terminal illness, but because she’s the prototype […]
I was a brand-new doctor, in my first week of residency after med school, working overnight in the ICU. I called home to check on […]
A Good Death What our patients really need is honesty. By Mary Kraemer, Temple University Hospital Read more » On Mistakes Everybody makes them. For us, […]
