After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor’s place in the world of medicine.
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Physician Maureen Miller describes how a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1897 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathologist.
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Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression.
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Hospitalist Archna Eniasivam describes the time she made a diagnostic error with one of her favorite patients.
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Family medicine physician Catherine Forest listens to her one of her classical music idols serenade a dying loved one in the hospital.
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a priest who worked beside him.
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When caring for a young woman with a new brain cancer diagnosis, medicine resident Colleen Farrell comes to grips with her own mortality.
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Hospitalist Peter Barish recounts an intense, intimate moment with a patient.
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying man go home.
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Emergency medicine physician Joe Sills panics when the patient he has just pronounced dead regains a pulse.
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