The first page was startling. A Catholic nun dies giving birth to conjoined twins. And so begins the epic journey of Abraham Verghese's sweeping novel, …
Category: Physician stories
Cancer's Pulitzer Prize winner: Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD
The epic tome on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, is subtitled, A Biography of Cancer. I was intrigued by the biography portion of the …
Why are female physicians paid less than male ones?
Numerous media outlets reported late last week on a study showing that a widening pay gap exists between male and female physicians. According to the …
John Ioannidis, MD: Research's researcher
John Ioannidis, MD, is red hot! The meta-researcher is featured as one of the brave thinkers of 2010 in the current issue of The Atlantic …
Pioneers in science
When Carla Shatz, PhD, and Helen Blau, PhD, came to Stanford in 1978, they were two of the first women to be hired on the …
Shhh, it's a secret: Carlos Bustamante discusses his MacArthur award
Carlos Bustamante, PhD, was sworn to secrecy: After he received an early morning phone call telling him that he had received a MacArthur fellowship, he …
Working at the White House: a tremendous honor that’s tremendously bad for your health
When my friend Paul Costello left the Carter Administration, he wrote a funny New York Times article suggesting a special course for departing staffers: There …
Hands on: Abraham Verghese teaches bedside skills
Stanford's Abraham Verghese, MD, is trying to revive a vanishing art: the hands-on bedside exam. In this 1:2:1 podcast, he tells me that technology and …