Stanford psychologist Sarah Adler offers tips for doctors on how to have more effective conversations about weight with their patients.
Talking about weight with your doctor can be difficult. Stanford Health Care Chief of Staff Megan Mahoney shares how she approaches this subject.
Learning to how to read the body language of a horse helps doctors, and future doctors learn how to communicate better, non-verbally, with their patients.
A wellness speaker/author calls for turning to the older members of our society for wisdom and advice.
There's a pressing need for more research into transgender health issues. That was the argument eloquently laid out at Stanford Medicine X talk this weekend by ePatient Charlie Blotner. As …
When Alexis Roberts Keiner's 9-week-old son died unexpectedly at day care in 2012, "we had to choose very quickly what kind of bereaved family we …
"Without time to waste, I instinctively grabbed Annie, thrust the car door open and began to sprint -- with 70-pound Annie in my arms," recalled …
Ai-jen Poo and her grandmother play mahjong together. "That's our thing," she says, with a smile. "She lets me win once a year on my …
As part of a series of powerful talks at Stanford Medicine X this morning, Andrea Wilson took the stage to talk about what might be everyone's …
Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the medical school, kicked off the second day of Stanford Medicine X by discussing some of today's challenges in health care. …
It was a classic Medicine X moment: Patient-advocate and artist-in-residence Anthony Carbajal was on stage talking about his disease -- "Having [it] really, really shows me …
There was a buzz in the air this morning as Larry Chu, MD, took the stage (to the event's signature upbeat music) to kick off this …
What do you do when your infant girl is diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease? How would you process the words "There's nothing you …
We celebrated my dad's 70th birthday on a warm summer night in 2011 with a big Sicilian family dinner and root beer floats for dessert …
Young at heart. He has a heart of gold. She's a heartbreaker. So often we used the word "heart" to define who we are or …
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains" ― Pierre-Auguste Renoir Jennifer Walker doesn't want to be defined by her disease. So much more than a patient …
