Stories of shocking medical errors that occur because doctors miss something during a physical exam — or forget to examine a patient at all — …
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Seeing ghosts in the form of patients
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
TEDMED, in pictures
A group of MD and PhD students represented Stanford at TEDMED 2015, which was held last week. Several students have written about their experiences on Scope, …
How to combine anesthesiology, internal medicine and rock climbing
I’ll admit it: I’m in awe of, and a little intimidated by, medical residents. Between the early call times, long hours, and flurry of patients …
Mysteries of medicine: Why I’m not learning as much as I thought I would in medical school
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
The devil you know: Experts discuss the public-health consequences of e-cigarettes
How do we reduce health risk in the face of harm that can’t be eradicated completely? That's the question that the medical school’s dean, Lloyd …
Considering premed? Some things to think about…
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Two weeks in Humboldt County, Calif.: Insight into rural medicine
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Close-up look at mutinous mutant molecule implicated in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
The healthy human heart is a hard-working muscle: Beating just over 100,000 beats per day, it pumps five quarts of blood per minute - enough …
Learning how to learn medicine
Stanford Medicine Unplugged (formerly SMS Unplugged) is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
From Bollywood actress to social activist
During a recent trip to India, I had the great fortune to spend the day with Amala Akkineni, a beloved south Indian actress who is …
A nurse becomes a doctor
When I heard that first-year medical student Mariposa Garth-Pelly was a nurse, I had to meet her. I have extensive experience, sadly, with the critical …
Charlotte Jacobs on finding “snippets during every day” to balance careers in medicine and literature
Stanford oncologist Charlotte Jacobs, MD, loved reading biographies as a child. But it wasn't until years later, while on sabbatical at Stanford, that she decided …
A recipe for disaster: Stanford researchers identify mutations that contribute to rare blood cancers
“One thing we’ve learned about cancers is that each has its own unique recipe for malignancy. Some use the same ingredients and some a have …
Passing the boards: Reassessing “Step 1 madness”
Charles Prober, MD, senior associate dean of medical education at Stanford, has long been concerned about the misuse of Step 1. The national standardized test, …
Earlier puberty linked with wide range of health conditions in study
Given that I have an eight-and-a-half-year-old who looks and often acts much older than her age, puberty has been on my mind a lot lately. …