An Unfortunate SCOTUS Opinion
By Resisting Callousness |
In my view, the main problem with Justice Alito’s leaked SCOTUS opinion is that it suffers from a lack of ...
Read More Let Suffering Speak
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Taking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization ...
Read More Letter to graduating residents, 2020
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June 15, 2020 Good morning, newly certifiable internists: I thoroughly enjoyed being in the audience at your graduation ceremony. Your ...
Read More “Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.”
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“Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.” (EM Forster, Howard’s End) An alien virus (“the Chinese virus”) ...
Read More Why are zombie stories scary, and fascinating?
By Resisting Callousness |
This summer I picked up and was hooked by a zombie book (World War Z, by Max Brooks). It posits ...
Read More Compassion in patient care
By Resisting Callousness |
I’d like to speak up for making medicine (not just internal medicine, but any health care profession) a calling to ...
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