Helen Mirren said something recently that made me think about a part of medicine we rarely discuss. The 81-year-old actor…
You’re at the dinner table, and someone starts chewing. Nothing loud, nothing unusual. But something inside you snaps. Your heart rate…
Living in a retirement community, I see many people develop and progress to severe Alzheimer’s disease. This is the disease…
My wife and I were having lunch with friends about six years ago. We were in our late 70s, and…
has been happening for hundreds of years. Systemic racism has been present ever since the founding of our nation, and…
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Our body’s immune system creates surprising effects on mental health, which people need to understand. Until now, medicine has been…
As you enter a job interview you discover through instinct that the interviewer has already formed impressions about your leadership…
I was taken aback by the term used in the article published in JAMA Network Open: Medical gaslighting has been…
She sat across from me in the radiation oncology exam room, hands folded in her lap. No phone. No watch.…
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