Santa Ana and the fires to come
The seasonal high winds that once seemed a romantic part of living in Los Angeles now stir an annual sense of doom.
The lost humanity in AI medicine
As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?
Slowing to listen at the end of life
Marcia sat up on the side of the bed, a hand on each knee, and braced herself as she leaned forward to open the space in her chest for more air. At 52, she was dying of ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. The critical organ had failed,
The night I called Code Lavender
July 1995. It was my first night of internship, the next step after medical school. I’d already admitted a half dozen patients to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit from the emergency room under the watch of a third-year resident. The CCU was the scariest first-night internship assignment there was.
And the doctors fled: The second burning of Paradise, CA
Winds that once seemed romantic are now a source of annual fear.
Narrative medicine: Why stories matter in healthcare
There was a low rumble in the room. I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying above the din, but I feel the excitement in my body even now as my memory-neurons fire. This new batch of future doctors was about to enter terrain more daunting than the fundamentals of