“Notes from a Healer” — Number Games

Unfortunately, medicine is not an exact science. As amazing as modern technology is, it’s not foolproof. Sometimes you end up chasing lab values to no end. Scans can detect artifacts as well as bona fide lesions. You try to put the pieces of the puzzle together as best you can. more»

My latest installment of Notes from a Healer — Number Games — is now online, newly published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.

The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine is an online journal fostering discussion about the culture of medicine, medical care, and experiences of illness. Interested readers can access a list of editorial board members and regular contributors here.

“Notes from a Healer” — The Pyramids of Giza

Over 30 years of medical practice I have come to know quite a few immigrants who confided that they felt cast adrift, unable to settle the question of where they truly belonged. In effect, they felt as though they had become sojourners without a permanent country. Wherever they happened to be at the time, they carried the acute awareness of an emotional tug from their other home halfway round the globe. more»

My latest installment of Notes from a Healer — The Pyramids of Giza — is now online, newly published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.

The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine is an online journal fostering discussion about the culture of medicine, medical care, and experiences of illness. Interested readers can access a list of editorial board members and regular contributors here.