In a sweet and insightful blog post on KevinMD, ethicist and critical care physician Robert Truog, MD explores a common but loaded question from parents of …
Category: Physician stories
Red Sunshine: One doctor's journey surviving stage 3 breast cancer
There’s something so raw and intimate about Kim Allison’s cancer memoir, Red Sunshine, that as a reader at times you feel like you might be …
Abraham Verghese uses Google Glass to demonstrate how to begin a patient exam
Updated 07-30-13: A change was made to the last paragraph. *** A strong advocate for “hands-on” medicine, Stanford physician Abraham Verghese, MD, led the effort …
Amplifying the physician-mother voice
Balancing work and family life is something parents constantly strive to achieve. But for mothers who are also physicians, attaining work-life balance often involves overcoming …
President Obama awards National Medal of Science to Stanford’s Lucy Shapiro
Today, President Barack Obama presented 23 innovators and researchers, including Stanford developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD, with national medals for their contributions to science, technology …
Stanford’s Lucy Shapiro receives National Medal of Science
It's a big week for developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD. On Friday, she will be awarded the National Medal of Science - an honor often referred …
Meet the medical school’s new dean: Lloyd Minor
Lloyd Minor, MD, the former provost of Johns Hopkins University, officially became dean of the Stanford School of Medicine on December 1. A few days …
Phil Pizzo, the marathon man, moves on
Philip Pizzo, MD, bids adieu to his position as dean of the School of Medicine on December 1. His twelve-year tenure at the helm of …
Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone: Two years as a New York Times best seller
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, …
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 …