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, […]
I am a physician, and I make mistakes. It’s scary. What’s scarier at this moment, though, is what you might think of me for my […]
Late last year, the #MeToo campaign was all over the Internet as women across the country shared their stories of sexual harassment. It flooded social […]
At the core of anyone’s journey to become more authentic is the desire for genuine self-expression, the need to remove a facade worn to placate […]
