Audrey Shafer discusses the intellectual and personal inspiration behind the poem "Medicine," featured in Stanford Medicine's year-end video.
Medical trainees, writes one student, are like glorified breathing-and-walking medical dictionaries. But, given their knowledge will ultimately help patients, that's okay.
Stanford Medicine magazine explores how vital hearing and listening are for our well-being, and the science behind discoveries that could improve how we do both.
It’s a common scenario on rotations: You, as a medical student, have seen your patient and shared your assessment and plan with your attending physician. …
When times are tough, we're often told to talk through our troubles with a mental health professional. But, this isn't always practical advice; some people …
Design thinking may be able to help us disentangle one of the most perplexing complications in the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic disease: human …
On the final day of Stanford Medicine X, Alice Wong, founder and project coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, moderated the poignant, at times humorous, …
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. …
Amy Edmondson, PhD, considers herself lucky. In her life, she’s been hospitalized just twice, for relatively straightforward childbirths. But the memories are vivid — and one, …
As part of a recently launched series, I've been speaking with female faculty members in our neurosurgery department. Last month, I shared my conversation with …
In the last 10 years, U.S. mothers have been dying in childbirth at shocking rates: Compared to other developed countries, three times as many U.S. …
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 …
At long last, the day of graduation -- not only from medical school but from a lifetime of schooling -- is within reach. In less …
Everyone rose to their feet and a hush came over the crowd as Erik Brodt, MD, wrapped up his closing keynote speech to end the …
A team of researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley have created a wristwatch-style device that can potentially be used to monitor diseases …
Saturday morning marks the start of this year's Medicine X | ED, an event that was born from the popular Medicine X conference and that …
