The residency programs in community general medicine are essential for the training of teachers and researchers who will be models to the graduating students and change the undergraduate courses by removing them from the now prevalent overspecialization so as to arrive at a more humane medicine that...
Sadly, I know lots of people who have heeded the seductive siren call of alt med — and most of them completed residency. Intellectual integrity is really really hard; maybe harder than medicine. But there is no excuse for turning away from science, AKA “reality” in our quest to help....
The first big moment of April: Joshua got his first taste of food! We started with rice cereal, which he loved, a little before 6 months because I needed something to hide his malaria medicine in! (We needed to take the medicine to go to the coast.) Joshua LOVES food! Easter is a ...
Despite his professional accomplishments, and the humanitarian award he received this year from the California Medical Center, Sherman believes he faces an uncertain future. For one thing, he wonders whether surgeons like him will have a place in the rapidly evolving world of medicine and managed c...