It was a perfectly comfortable morning when suddenly it was discomforted by a request for a stat palliative care consult. A stat…
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John Grover is a nice guy. He’s fifty-five, short, a little chubby, and he has a neatly trimmed red beard. He’s the…
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Another youthful slaughter, then a rote parade of shattered students, cacophony to ban all guns or arm every citizen. Candlelight vigils, flowers,…
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Why do we treat psychiatric illness different from other illness?
by Banu Symington MD February 25, 2018I recently had the opportunity to be the informal medical navigator for a friend with an acute psychiatric crisis. This previously “normal”…
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I do some of my best thinking while exercising. A few years ago, I was swimming laps in the still-dark early morning.…
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In tragedy, practicing medicine both an honor and a privilege
by Molly M. Murray PA-C February 23, 2018For the past four years, this is James Beck’s routine: After a morning spent guzzling $5 vodka, he stumbles into a Dunkin’…
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The irony of me observing death on a day celebrating my birth
by Johnathan Yao February 22, 2018As part of my medical school’s inter-professional learning, I shadowed a hospital chaplain this afternoon. While physicians principally attend to the physical…
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As a boy growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, I never gave much thought to the concept of a kiss.…