physician

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

My ‘sunken place’: Having to call police when I know it could be deadly for my black patients

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

Two little girls, two similar paths to medicine, but one difference: immigration

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Jamaica Medical Tourism

Health

In Jamaica, a push to market island getaways — with a side of surgery

By Rebecca Robbins

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Dr. Henry Heimlich

Health

Henry Heimlich, creator of life-saving maneuver, dies at 96

By Associated Press

ICU Delirium

Hospitals

Hospitals struggle to address terrifying and long-lasting ‘ICU delirium’

By Usha Lee McFarling

Medical students

First Opinion

Talk more about dying. Make doctors get MBAs. How to reform medical school

By Patrick Skerrett

First Opinion

It’s time to recognize and prevent the tragedy of physician suicide

By Joan M. Anzia

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Off the Charts

Off the Charts

Here’s an idea that shouldn’t be radical: There can be joy in practicing medicine

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Physician Burnout

First Opinion

Fighting the silent crisis of physician burnout

By Tom Jenike

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

A new MD learns to live with pain and find hope in her patients’ stories

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Pay Disparity

Health

White male doctors earn 35 percent more than black male doctors

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Health

Her office is Skid Row: A doctor tends to the staggering needs of the homeless

By Usha Lee McFarling

Medical Certification doctors

Politics

Doctors revolt against medical skills tests — and rack up some wins

By Keren Landman

ZdoggMD

Health

With a rapper alter ego, a ‘loud-mouthed’ doctor takes on the medical establishment

By Megan Thielking

Patient Racism

First Opinion

The patient called me ‘colored girl.’ The senior doctor training me said nothing

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Heidi Schmidt Match Day

Politics

Looming question for medical students: Will they be shut out of advanced training?

By Melissa Bailey

DNA sequence

Lab Chat

What people do with their genetic tests

By Megan Thielking

Dr. Jack Maypole

Health

Watch: This doctor’s cartoons bring smiles to young patients

By Bob Tedeschi and Hyacinth Empinado