Why I, a Physician, Write
I remember my first encounter with great literature. Before bedtime, my father would read Great Expectations to me,...
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Reflections on Treating the Poor
It is altogether curious your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty — it is the thing...
The Distortion of “Death with Dignity”
I recently wrote a short essay for Public Discourse about the “death with dignity” movement. In the piece,...
Practicing Medicine Turns One
As I look back on the first year of this blog and reflect on my four years of medical school, I am amazed at how much I...
When the Patient Becomes a Specimen
He lay in the hospital bed, belly-up, staring at the ceiling. We knocked as we entered and asked the patient a barrage...