Back when I was a third-year medical student, I would sometimes bike to the hospital campus early enough to catch the groundskeepers…
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Standing on the shoulders of the basic science researchers who came before us
by Steven Zhang January 1, 2019I recently attended a small dinner hosting Robert Lefkowitz, MD, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery for…
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Treating the patient’s body is not synonymous with treating the patient
by Steven Zhang December 16, 2018We recently had a patient who arrived on our service in the intensive care unit after a complicated surgery. The surgery left…
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The common critique of surgeons from their medical colleagues is the scant amount of time spent with their patients. As the argument…
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The art of medicine is slowly being pushed out. Is that a good thing?
by Steven Zhang April 16, 2018One late evening on pediatrics call, a frantic young couple brought in their few weeks old baby. She had spiked a fever…
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In the mid-1800s, Ignaz Semmelweis, then a professor at Johns Hopkins, proposed something outrageous: Doctors and medical students working in the maternity ward…