Let’s Get Physical
In his great book “Cutting For Stone”, Abraham Verghese describes one of his main characters, Dr. Marion Stone, as being obsessed with a certain aspect of the physical exam. Dr. Stone, as the...
View ArticleFor Once, Then, Something
As I was leaving for Boston, I asked if anyone would care to contribute to this blog. I am still processing the wonderful things that friends and family have sent me. This one is from my husband. One...
View ArticleDear Diary
I was talking to a friend the other day about the fact that what we now call “blogs”, we used to call diaries. Then I said to her, “I should pull out the diaries that I kept in college and in medical...
View ArticleWho We Really Are
When I was a resident in radiation oncology, I thought I already knew a lot about medicine. After all, I had just completed an internal medicine residency, and had taken and passed my boards....
View ArticleMy Days In Dermatology
I’ve always been good at pattern recognition and my visual/spatial orientation is excellent. Photography is my hobby, so it was only natural that as a medical student and internal medicine resident, I...
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