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Strange Mechanisms: How, Exactly, Do We Breathe?

Strange Mechanisms: How, Exactly, Do We Breathe?

MeiLan K. Han on the Mind-Boggling Complexity of Respiration

By MeiLan K. Han, MD | November 23, 2021

Who Really Has the Authority to Write About the Pandemic?

Who Really Has the Authority to Write About the Pandemic?

Selina Mahmood on Making Space for Contradictions in Medicine

By Selina Mahmood | October 22, 2021

How Doctors Tell Stories: Writing Through the Practice of Medicine

How Doctors Tell Stories: Writing Through the Practice of Medicine

Leslie Jamison and Suzanne Koven in Conversation

By Leslie Jamison | May 4, 2021

Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

Brandy Schillace on Dr. Joseph E. Murray's Groundbreaking Surgery

By Brandy Schillace | March 29, 2021

When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

Nina Solis on Making Peace with the Unknown

By Nina Solis | February 18, 2021

Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

Boundaries and Care: On Touring French Pharmacies Before the Pandemic

Lucie Elven Charts the Research Process of Her Latest Book

By Lucie Elven | February 9, 2021

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What if Medicine is Not About Preserving Life, But About Humanity?

By Rachel Clarke | September 9, 2020

We Need a Diagnostic Metric For Racism

By AC Lynch | June 22, 2020

Compassion and Care: Being an EMT During a Pandemic

By Maya Alexandri | May 13, 2020

On Managing Acute Uncertainty in a Time of Medical Crisis

On Managing Acute Uncertainty in a Time of Medical Crisis

Elizabeth Silver Considers What We Can Learn From the Bad Times

By Elizabeth L. Silver | May 8, 2020

Why Do Doctors Discredit Women's Pain?

Why Do Doctors Discredit Women's Pain?

On Fibromyalgia and Discovering You're Not the Only One

By Sarah Ramey | March 18, 2020

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

On Terminal Pain and the Origins of the End-of-Life Movement

Gerald Posner on Cicely Saunders, the UK Nurse-Turned-Physician

By Gerald Posner | March 11, 2020

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

David Nott on Traveling to Aleppo to Save Lives

By David Nott | March 6, 2020

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

Long Confronted the Question">Philosophers and Scientists (and Stoners) Have
Long Confronted the Question

By David Schneider | March 5, 2020

An Intimate Look at Medically Assisted Death

An Intimate Look at Medically Assisted Death

Diane Rehm on Seeing a Dear Friend Through His Final Months

By Diane Rehm | February 13, 2020

Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery

Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery

On Post-War Innovations in Life Saving Surgery

By Gabriel Brownstein | November 19, 2019

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