February 18, 2020
(Quartz) – A video intended as a tribute to China’s female medical workers backfired as people instead vented their frustration over the way Chinese state-owned media outlets use women as tools for propaganda. The video, posted by Gansu Daily, a … Read More
February 5, 2020
(New York Post) – Fashion and beauty influencers have been earning fame, and a living, on social media for some time. Now, medical professionals are going on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get their brands out there, as well as … Read More
February 5, 2020
(STAT News) – Malcolm’s description of what he does knocked us back on our heels. It made us realize that we pass dozens of housekeepers in the corridors and elevators every day and — like most other physicians — pay … Read More
January 22, 2020
(The New York Times) – By calling our health care system unfriendly, then, I mean to underscore not hostile or antagonistic but tardy, hurried or distant responses from clinicians — careless care generally related less to their personal failures and … Read More
January 14, 2020
(The Guardian) – British families are sending elderly relatives with dementia overseas to Thailand in a small but growing trend. Researchers visiting private care homes in Chiang Mai have found eight homes where guests from the UK are living thousands … Read More
December 23, 2019
(NBC News) – Ten former colleagues of an Ohio physician accused earlier this year of murdering 25 of his hospital patients with excessive doses of pain medicine are standing by him, alleging in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the hospital … Read More
December 5, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – Although Kleinman’s specialty is studying how patients experience illness, he wasn’t prepared for the roller coaster of family caregiving. Each time he adapted to Joan’s changing condition, another setback would occur, setting off new crises and … Read More
November 26, 2019
(STAT News) – Waiting in the ED isn’t just a stressful test of endurance. It’s a first-order oxymoron. A waiting room in an emergency department? But that’s the warped and inescapable reality. Many institutions and hospital systems have instituted changes … Read More
November 26, 2019
(Wall Street Journal) – Innovations in robotics and genetic engineering, immunotherapy and artificial intelligence are creating opportunities in medicine that seem like science fiction, but none of them will fly without the literal hand-holding that only a flesh-and-blood physician can … Read More
November 12, 2019
(New York Times) – Anyone who has been a caregiver will relate to the unending grind of Joan’s decline, to Kleinman’s exhaustion and to his efforts to keep going. And he’s one of the lucky ones: He has the financial … Read More
