Clown Town Healing Fest
The first Clown Town Healing Fest in the United States was held at the downtown Phoenix Arizona Center on Saturday, February 26. The planning…
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March Ethical Question
A 15 year-old female is asked whether she would consent to being a bone marrow donor for her mother who is critically ill and…
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Zika: Why Now?
Mosquitoes carry a bad name. They carry malaria, chikungunya, typhoid, and dengue, and who knows what else . . . as we found out…
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Shakespeare’s Legacy and Impact on Medicine
Think back to the last time you read Romeo and Juliet. It was probably in high school English class, and you were assigned to…
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In Defense of Eminence-Based Medicine
An internal memo to the members of the Society for Truculent Underappreciated Practitioners of Inpatient Doctoring To arms, august compatriots! Our very way…
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NIH Receives a Funding Boon
In today’s political climate, discord is common and accords drastically less so. But in an increasingly rare show of bipartisanship, the National Institute of…
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A Review of the NPR Ted Radio Hour
We hope that you enjoy this summary of the six short NPR segments that were compiled to form the TED Radio Hour entitled “Just…
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How to: Unconditional Empathy
It’s another busy day at the clinic. You look up the patient list for the afternoon and start skimming through. As you sift through…
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What People See
This poem was created using the blackout poetry technique, in which the author starts with a newspaper article and blacks out words to compose…
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Quotes for Solidarity Week
We asked residents and attendings affiliated with our school to answer the question, “What is compassionate patient care?” And their responses were inspiring. …
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