‘Difficult patients’ and the doctors who fail them
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Lonnie was in her twenties. She had a rare disease that…
‘A continued wounding’—the untold epidemic of physician suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Pamela Wible runs a suicide hotline for physicians. She describes herself as having been obsessed with…
‘Ask how the Americans did it’: How racial bias in US medicine inspired Hitler and persists today
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The California state investigation into racial bias in healthcare only scratches the surface of a deeply-ingrained system.
The night I called Code Lavender
Reading Time: 6 minutes July 1995. It was my first night of internship, the next step after medical school. I’d already admitted…
For the love of my son and his dog—an autism story
Reading Time: 10 minutes My heart pounded as I drove slowly around bumps in the road to keep his body from…
I didn’t want a baby
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Trust me,” I said. “They break.” I was twenty-six, walking in Soho with my friend Noelle, laughing…
The last words he heard
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“The nurse put me on the phone. I told him his children loved him and all that.…
Slowing to listen at the end of life
Reading Time: 12 minutes Marcia sat up on the side of the bed, a hand on each knee, and braced herself…
And the doctors fled: The second burning of Paradise, CA
Reading Time: 7 minutes The last time I saw him, in August 2020, he was on a friend’s porch, all bones.…
Narrative medicine: Why stories matter in healthcare
Reading Time: 5 minutes There was a low rumble in the room. I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying above the…
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