A wise man knows that he must put things into perspective, but a still wiser man knows what perspective to put them into. A doctor who tells the widow of a patient who has just died that, after all, her husband’s was only one of 2,800,000 deaths a year in the United States alone (56,000,000 . . . . Continue Reading »
Are we really protecting the health of our citizens by shutting down? Continue Reading »
The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society. Continue Reading »
Every day at the hospital, I encounter ordinary heroes. Continue Reading »
The discipline of medicine is an art of dynamic tension. Continue Reading »
On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His suicide note provided no clear reason for his act; there were no apparent signs of mental illness, and he was . . . . Continue Reading »
Ending the devastation wrought by opioids in American communities requires us to acknowledge that the crisis exists. Continue Reading »
There have always been drug addicts in need of help, but the scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is . . . . Continue Reading »
When does a laudable desire to reduce healthcare costs become an obsession with controlling how we live our lives? Continue Reading »
When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century—those involving politics, trade, consumption, art—we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span . . . . Continue Reading »
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