Recently, Forbes named Jay-Z the first rap music artist billionaire. There are a number of reasons that he is classified in this exclusive category. However, his humble beginnings from the Marcy housing projects in Brooklyn did not hold him back. He…
I’ve been a doctor for a year. I’ve been out as bisexual for much longer. (I used to joke that my sexual orientation was old enough to order at a bar, but now it’s on the slog towards being able to rent its own car.) With June comes Pride, and with Pri…
Residency training is often considered to be one of the most daunting experiences in a physician’s career. Each day comes with its own package of highs and lows. Every year is a new challenge, and a young physician has to adapt significantly as the jo…
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 63-year-old woman is evaluated at a follow-up appointment after undergoing right hemicolectomy for colon cancer 1 year earlier. Her paterna…
We care for girls and women, pregnant or not. If you are two years old and put something in your girl parts and it disappears, we get it out. We care for two patients at once. We balance how pregnancy impacts you and how you impact your pregnancy. We w…
The best lens for reflection is to be immersed in the places and people that spawned those memories. Why else would reunions matter? Twenty years after we graduated the Yale School of Medicine, I found myself on campus embracing my classmates again. Bu…
In the U.S., we now have an outbreak of measles where the cases number more than it has in decades. Most of the people being infected are unvaccinated, and we’ve all seen the media reports of the growing tide of anti-vaxxers. While the CDC, WHO, and pr…
Did you feel that? That little jolt in your stomach as you clicked on the headline? Perhaps, your muscles tensed for just a moment? Maybe your heart skipped a beat. What was that? An insignificant flutter? A meaningless moment to shrug off in your busy…
With the recent FDA approval, Zolgensma became the world’s most expensive medication. Priced at $2.125 million per patient, the one-dose gene therapy is a potential life-saver for children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Now, the treatment is at th…
Recently, Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross made headlines by discussing her diagnosis of anal cancer and her husband’s diagnosis of throat cancer, revealing that both had been related to the human papillomavirus, or HPV. The move was brave, as th…
