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Public Health & COVID-19

Sea View Hospital

Remembering the Forgotten “Black Angels”

Another Pragmatic Public Health Decision

COVID

Resisting Public Health Measures, Then and Now

Good Doctor

Weighing Risks for My Patients at a Time of Covid-19

COVID

Now is the time to trust public health experts like Anthony Fauci

Clinical Medicine

COVID

Despite All the Backlash, Anti-Depressants Can Really Help

Fox, Bosk, and Rothman: An Appreciation of Three Scholars of Medicine

COVID

‘Three Identical Strangers’: The high cost of experimentation without ethics

Fat Nation Changed How I Talk to My Patients About Obesity

When Your ‘Regular Doctor’ Could Be Anyone

The Death of the Doctor’s Dog

Should Hospitals Be Upbeat?

How One Family Is Bringing Attention to Hydrocephalus

COVID

Can We Talk About Your Weight?

Teaching Medical Students About Culture and Consent

Euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands: On a Slippery Slope?

The Robot Will See You Now: Robert Wachter’s “The Digital Doctor”

Science, Activism and Truth: “Galileo’s Middle Finger, by Alice Dreger

COVID

Please Stop Making That Noise

When Patients Don’t Follow Up

When Doctors Act on Tradition and Emotion Over New Science

Alcoholism Through a Doctor’s Eyes

A Nurse Gains Fame in the Days of Polio

Pressing Patients to Change Their Minds

A Doctor Goes to Cancer Camp

A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio

When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis

In Science-Based Medicine, Where Does Luck Fit In?

Enduring and Endearing, a Patient Moves In

The Doctor, The Patient, The Funeral

At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions?

Famous Patients

The Complicated Legacy of Betty Ford’s Breast Cancer Story

What the Public Might Learn from Kate Middleton, the Latest “Famous Patient”

Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the Public Have the Right to Know His Diagnosis?

“Brian’s Song” at 50 Still Offers Lessons About Cancer for Today

Michael J. Fox: The Impact of a Very Famous Patient

What Alex Trebek has taught us about celebrity illness

Who Gets a Paid Obituary in the New York Times–and Why?

Five Myths on Presidential Health

Before Charlie Sheen, They Went Public With HIV

Jimmy Carter: Our Latest Famous Patient

COVID

Fighting Mental Illness on the Ballfield

COVID

The Father Who Fought for Lorenzo’s Oil

The First Female Celebrity to Embrace Parkinson’s

What Can We Learn From Eleanor Roosevelt’s Death?

Suzanne Somers, Cancer Expert

Lessons From Elizabeth Edwards

Libby Zion: A Life-Changing Case for Doctors in Training

McQueen’s Legacy of Laetrile

Hope and Reality Lou Gehrig’s Way

Drunk/Reckless Driving

Drunken Driving Is a Persistent Problem but There May Be a Technological Solution

Bruce Springsteen: The Latest Celebrity DWI

How Americans Learned to Condemn Drunk Driving

Falling Asleep At The Wheel: A Confession

Whoa, Tiger! Early Thoughts About Tiger Woods’ DUI

Drunk Driving’s Biggest Foe: Doris Aiken at 90

Why Drunk Driving Checkpoints Should Be Celebrated, Not Avoided

Guns, Cars and Too Much Liberty

Treat Reckless Driving Like Drunk Driving

Tipsy Driving Is Dangerous, Too

Cracking Down on Drinking and Driving

Why Can’t the NFL Stop Its Players From Driving Drunk?

Friends Still Let Friends Drive Drunk

Cancer

The Complicated Legacy of Betty Ford’s Breast Cancer Story

Why Isn’t There Agreement on When Women Need to Start Getting Mammograms?

Remembering Betty Rollin, Who Told Her Breast Surgeon That Post-Operative Appearance Mattered

The Trailblazer Who Ensured Women With Breast Cancer Had a Choice

“Brian’s Song” at 50 Still Offers Lessons About Cancer for Today

The Trap of Treatment Dogma

John Bailar’s Righteous Attack on the “War on Cancer”

Straddling Conventional and Alternative Cancer Treatment

The Actual Value of Breast Cancer Stories

Why Did the American Cancer Society Ignore Evidence About Early Detection Until Now?

I Am A Talking Head On The New Ken Burns Cancer Documentary — Not

Not So Simple: The Breast Cancer Stories of Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller

Bernard Fisher’s Battle Against the Radical Mastectomy

New Breast Cancer Film to Premiere in New York City

Extreme Breast Cancer Prevention

The Annals of Extreme Surgery

In the Death Of a Doctor, A Lesson

Medical Education

Frank Netter: The Michelangelo of Medicine

When Med Students Get Medical Students’ Disease

In a Hospital Hierarchy, Speaking Up Is Hard to Do

Young Doctors Learn Quickly in the Hot Seat

Practicing Medicine Without a Swagger

For a Young Doctor, the Ultimate Sacrifice

Medical Ethics

The Fraught History of the Pelvic Exam

Good history means grappling with people’s complicated legacies

Overruling My Father

Physician, Sing Thyself: A Doctor Checks Up on a New “Allegro”

When Medicine is Futile

When the Doctor Knows Best

COVID

Should Doctors Take Care of Their Relatives?

Sherwin Nuland and the Medical History Wars

Searching for Semmelweis