Many of us can recall individuals who were destined for the Big Stage, the Big Room. These shining stars seemingly had that unique...

Once upon a time—and you know when I start with those four words, I’m taking you down a retrospective path—medicine reflected a sacred...

We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

Damar Hamlin, a remarkable and beloved football player for the Buffalo Bills, suffered a cardiac arrest following what would appear to be...

It’s easy to drown in a sea of nostalgia and remember the good old days, which in actual fact may not have been so good. However, the...

We humans survived on the grassy plains of East Africa millions of years ago by the power of community. The power of connectedness....

Coal mining is a profoundly dangerous profession. Before there were federally mandated safety measures, these early pioneers were aware...

In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...

Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...

Regardless of what we do for a living or where we live, to some extent we are all connected by the demons of our digital world. According...

What do you fear? In your quiet moments. In ancient Rome, when the conquering generals would return to Rome following their victory in...

A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...

I was recently interviewed for a unique podcast hosted by Brilliant Miller, who has an incredibly fun, fresh style. He started the School...

In the world of oncology (cancer), hospice, palliative medicine, and the intensive care unit, there is a responsibility for us medical...

As COVID infections spread in mid-2020, and as isolating was recognized as the path to prevention, patients were reluctant to show up for...

We are not deciding who lives or dies. We are deciding what is the best course of treatment for the patient.

We all know etiquette for weddings, and I have written about etiquette at funerals and for visiting patients in the hospital. But no one...

As we are getting to the end of the academic year, speakers are lining up to give commencement addresses. The usual message goes...

The often-asked question for many of my patients and their families toward the end of life goes something like this: “Okay, Doc, how long...