Resisting Callousness

Health Care

[This essay is the text of a 20-min talk I gave on this date at Medical Grand Rounds at Rochester ...

I. "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab-Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve ...

Taking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization ...

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I offer this poem and Padraig O Tuama’s comments to remind us of the deep and sustaining compassion that is ...

June 15, 2020 Good morning, newly certifiable internists: I thoroughly enjoyed being in the audience at your graduation ceremony. Your ...

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Sacred Pause is a ritual that acknowledges the significance of a patient’s death. More than an idea, its practice brings ...

I’d like to speak up for making medicine (not just internal medicine, but any health care profession) a calling to ...