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I Was a White House Doctor. Presidents Should Have to Take Cognitive Tests.
The job of president is physically and mentally demanding. I witnessed this firsthand as a White House physician for three…
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Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Gift for Free Medical School Applies but Not to All
A donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide free tuition for Johns Hopkins medical students, if their families make less than…
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Why It’s So Hard to Find a Pediatrician These Days
I haven’t actively practiced pediatrics for a few years, but one of my favorite things to do is to be…
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In San Francisco, Doctors Feud Over ‘Do No Harm’ When It Comes to War Protests
Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the…
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More Doctors Walk Off the Job in South Korea
Physicians across the country staged a one-day strike, the latest escalation in a months-old protest against the government’s plan to…
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Ethical Lapses in the Medical Profession
More from our inbox: Don’t Cave, ColumbiaA Florida Book OasisBalloon Release BanCredit...Lindsey BealTo the Editor: Re “Moral Dilemmas in Medical…
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Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Mediator for Life’s Final Moments, Dies at 82
A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-or-death decisions in a…
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Herbert Pardes, Who Steered the Growth of a Giant Hospital, Dies at 89
A psychiatrist, he ran New York-Presbyterian after a landmark merger, improving its patient care and finances and raising money to…
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In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal
Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an…
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What Medical Stories Do We Trust?
Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical…