Well, Well, Well: Products and services compete for shelf space in trendy wellness market, but are they worth your money?
When a friend recently asked me to join them for a class at Inscape, a New York-based meditation studio that
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Healthcare
Discontinuity in Care
My resident tries fairly hard to take care of his patients. When he is with them, I catch him paying
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Human Trafficking: A Brief Guide for Physicians
Human trafficking. Like many things we hear about or read in the news, it seems like a problem of developing
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Nodding Along
My grandmother was a strong and compassionate Egyptian woman, a mother of three, and a pathologist. On a glass slide,
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If you don’t ask, you’ll never know
On the first day of my first rotation as a medical student, my preceptor shared this bit of wisdom: if
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Properly Unprepared
It was late afternoon, and the current nursing shift would be relieved in less than ninety minutes. The feeling of
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The Policy on Policy: Why Medical Students Need to Learn About Healthcare
A 27-year-old woman is woken up by a sharp, stabbing pain in her lower right abdominal quadrant. She feels feverish,
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Can social justice replace medicine?
‘Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ – Marmot (2) Despite the leaps and bounds that science has made
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