A medication recall can answer an important question about a product while leaving the patient’s next question unresolved: What should I do about my next dose? That gap matters. A headline may name a ...

I’m sixty-four years old. I’ve practiced internal medicine for more than thirty-five years, and I figure I’ve got another seven good years left. And I’m not particularly worried about artificial ...

Earlier in my career, I rounded with interns, residents, a chart rack, and a charge nurse. We disagreed and had competing demands, but working alongside one another gave us some sense of what was ...

Because medicine excludes psychological and social issues in training and health care, we have a crisis in physical disease care (as well as the mental health crisis). You read correctly: a crisis in ...

An emergency intubation can create a moment of relief. The breathing tube is in place, its position is confirmed, and the ventilator is supporting a patient who may have been deteriorating only ...

There is a specific kind of tired that shows up in women who have given their lives to medicine. They matched into competitive residencies, they trained through most of their twenties and into their ...

If you’re reading this from a hospital bed, you might still be asking yourself how you got here. A lot of my patients tell me they never thought it would come to this, that dialysis was something that ...

More than 20 years ago, I began performing robotic surgery when the technology was still unfamiliar to many surgeons and operating room teams. I started my career as an engineer before becoming a ...