This 1:2:1 podcast features Paul Kalanithi, MD, a Stanford physician and author who was dying of lung cancer.
When Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, witnessed the untimely and inevitable passing of patients, friends and his father, the shortcomings of our medical system’s approach to …
There's a quiet dignity that envelopes Abraham Verghese, MD. You can imagine other authors whose books have scaled to the top to be taken with themselves, …
I always relish a good Q&A. As a writer, I know how hard it is to craft questions that elicit insights into a person — …
Earlier this month, football fans across the world watched as the New England Patriots shocked the Seattle Seahawks with a very dramatic last-minute win. While …
One of the perks of working for a university is that I get, like a regular ol' student, a nice long winter break. I was off work …
“The old-school surgeon mentality is that surgery is your life. The very existence of the program is an acknowledgment that a cultural shift is occurring.” …
Bill Newsome, PhD, knows the brain perhaps as well as the back of his hand. The Stanford neurobiologist was vice chair of the federal BRAIN Initiative launched …
Earlier this week, I had the chance to hear Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, MD, discuss living with advanced-stage lung cancer in a conversation with palliative …
Updated 3-11-15: Paul Kalanithi passed away on March 9. *** Updated 10-23-14: Paul Kalanithi spoke about this topic on campus earlier this week; more on the event, …
At a Stanford Pegasus Physician Writers Forum last week, psychiatrist Shaili Jain, MD, told the 40-or-so attendees that writing and practicing medicine are synergistic. Medicine and motherhood: …
I spent a recent morning watching about 30 Stanford surgical residents take time off from their operating rooms to participate in a series of team-building …
Few of us pay close attention to metaphors used in the language of medicine. Instead, our focus is typically on words relating to symptoms, test …
When I first met Stanford surgeon Sherry Wren, MD, I immediately liked her. The affinity was probably due to the fact that we're both from …
When the history about medical marijuana's path to legitimacy is written, CNN's chief medical reporter Sanjay Gupta, MD, may be more than a footnote. Gupta famously …
This week marks the launch of the Stanford Medicine Music Network, an online meeting place for musicians in the Stanford health-care community looking to share …
