Apr 6, 2015 | Aging, Health Care, News and Updates
A few months ago, a photo of a dress went viral because people saw different things when they looked at it. Was it blue with black stripes, or white with gold stripes? Others disputed whether it mattered and wondered about human divisions and trivial obsessions. The...
Feb 9, 2013 | Aging, Health Care, Public Medical Communication, Writing
Sometimes life imitates art. The final story in my collection, A History of the Present Illness, called “A Medical Story”, opens with a doctor making a home visit to a public housing building. While I changed details to protect the patient and create a...
Dec 6, 2012 | Doctoring, Health Care, Patients
Being a doctor can give a person a very warped perspective on life and illness. We tend to see people when they are sick and see the sickest patients more often than the healthier ones (rightly so!). As a result, our impressions are based on one (during a...
Dec 3, 2012 | Aging, Doctoring, Health Care, Patients, Public Medical Communication, Writing
The world is full of books – over 129 million at last count. And parts of the world – Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Denver, London – are full of doctors. What’s more, the ranks of doctor-writers keep growing. So why, a very reasonable person might ask, do we...