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

Jamaica Medical Tourism
Health

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

By Rebecca Robbins

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

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

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
Play
Health

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

By Bob Tedeschi and Hyacinth Empinado

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