Should doctors be able to write?
At first glance, this might seem like a question with an easy answer. Yes, you might say, doctors receive a doctorate and are trusted with communicating...
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Elderhood and the Pulitzer Prizes
On the afternoon of Monday, May 4 2020, I was in clinic – well, pandemic clinic. I was sitting at my home desk talking to a patient via Zoom on my...
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...
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...