Medicine

Chemo Sucks.

An update from the thick of it

The C-Word Maybe Should be “Could”

Are Doctors Too Nonchalant about Pronouncing a Dreaded Diagnosis?

Stayin’ Alive

(Without Spending Every Spare Minute at the Doctor’s Office)

Daring Experiments with Sleep

Finding a new compassion for my body

We’re All Healthy, We’re All Sick

The truth is that all bodies are well and all bodies are not well. All bodies are healthy and all…

Lived Through This

My Family’s Tender Language of Blood and Gore

Thanks to my dad’s…

The Art of Balancing Medicine and Mortality

The story of a life-threatening illness, a miraculous…

When Your Genes Determine Whether You Live or Die

I spent years afraid to see a doctor, but…

The Patient Who Reminded Me I’m Human

As an untrained E.R. doctor, all I wanted was to make it through…

Anthropomorphic Plum

I am a woman, wearing white. Today is not my wedding day.