In My Humble Opinion

The American Board of Internal Medicine is irrelevant.  It has always been.  I realized this when I first certified in Internal Medicine in ...

I assumed she asked because besides being a hospice volunteer,  I was a medical student and wouldn't get spooked by a dead body.  She pr...

I'd like to take a moment to update my readers on the progress of the last month since the publication of my book. I have been se...

I remember being more confident that most of my peers.  The look of dread on my fellow interns face pre-call, and the fatigue post-call alwa...

It was time to check out. The trip had been a blast.  There was sun, and water, and too much food.  Of course there were moments of disple...

I used to think that there was a communication gulf between doctors and patients.  Somewhere in the hub-bub of of the harried office visit ...

Behind every doctor is a little boy or girl who once watched helplessly. Maybe it was her father or grandfather who suffered under the weigh...