The Quiet Joys of Doctoring
From the moment I started medical school and for years thereafter, my friends called about bladder infections, birth control, and the occasional poison...
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The meaning of home
On September 14 2017, the day after a Florida nursing home lost air conditioning when a tree fell on their transformer in the wake of Hurricane Irma...
Aging & Driving
I have been fired by a patient – explicitly and to my face – just once. It happened during my first year after residency, and although I can no longer...
Paul Kalanithi Reader: January 2016’s Great Reads, And Why
This month I focus exclusively on writings by and about the writer-neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi, who died last year at age 37. I didn’t know him, and I...