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I debated for quite a while whether to reply to Sarah Brady’s article. However, I felt I should do so, if only to offer another perspective…
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I read Travis’s article about “Virtue Ethics,” and his words made me smile. He captured the essence of why I have long supported virtue ethics. It’s…
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Sometimes a patient ‘introduces’ themselves before you even see them. From where we were in the hallway of Banner University’s cardiac floor, a resounding…
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The angels were nowhere to be found that evening—abandoning their posts in the forests and galaxies, trusting the stars to stay in place for…
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“Sttttep right up! Step right up! Ladiiiiesss and gentlemen! Children of all ages! Prepare to be amazed! For you are about to witness a…
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Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the sixth installment! This is the third part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused…
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“I had a patient just this week who, as I was about to give her intravenous sedation, said, ‘Isn’t this illegal? Didn’t they stop…
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Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fifth installment! This is the second part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused…
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Scientific discovery is often imagined as a solitary eureka moment—a singular mind or laboratory unlocking nature’s secrets in isolation. But history tells a different…
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Or Blue-green. The exact color of the hospital-issued scrubs are not as relevant as their purpose: to prevent eye strain (as opposed to the…
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Neurology. I knew I was going to be a neurologist when I entered medical school. Nah, surgeon. After my surgery rotation, I was sure…
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A normal part of being in the medical field is being confronted with death. We talk about it in textbooks filled with statistical terms…
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Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fourth installment! This is the first part of the Normative Ethics section, where we will…
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“Excuse me, sir! You cannot just walk out in the middle of your appointment with the medical student!” Our clinic superhero and patient care…
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In the span of one day, an average adult will take anywhere from 22,000 – 24,000 breaths. And yet how many of those breaths…
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Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895) At the start of my fourth year of medical school, I arrived at the hospital uncaffeinated, hungry, thirsty, and…
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Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the third installment! This is the final part in the metaethics series before we move on…
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Every May, Skin Cancer Awareness Month reminds us that the sun can be both life-giving and life-threatening. But here in Arizona, where there are…
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Depending on the location and the weather, Street Medicine can be practiced with numb and frigid hands, sweat dripping down our backs, or heavy…
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We learn a lot from what we see. We invent visual modalities that capture our surroundings, converting them into numbers to be shared and…
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Surrogacy has been a hotly contested legal topic, with opponents arguing it commodifies children and reduces the female body to an incubator, and proponents…
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Few innovations in the history of medicine have had as profound and enduring an impact as the electrocardiogram (EKG). As both a diagnostic cornerstone…
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Ritsona and Malakasa camp are said to reside in between two large mountain ranges, tucked away securely and covertly in a valley, explaining the…
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“What’s your favorite cocktail?” A question like this is usually asked at a dinner party, a weekend getaway, or maybe as an icebreaker in…
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“도와주세요!” (“Help me, please!”) My mom yelped as her right leg rested on the back door of my car. The urgent cry for help…
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