Doctors

Don't judge the chemo kid Don't judge the chemo kid

Those who have been through the living hell of cancer treatment understand the Hausers' decision to run away
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. May 22, 2009

  • Oprah's bad medicine

    Given her influence, it's a shame the TV star offers unbalanced health and medical advice.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. May 15, 2009

  • Swine flu: Don't panic!

    While the virus does reveal some novel traits, so far most symptoms are not out of the ordinary.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. April 27, 2009

  • Gabriel Byrne feels your pain

    The star of "In Treatment" talks about the role of a therapist, the challenge of being a good listener and why everyone needs a good chair.
    By Sarah Hepola April 2, 2009

  • Physician, heal thy system

    President Obama's ambitious healthcare reforms begin with doctors themselves -- if they take the medicine.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. March 18, 2009

  • Judging autism

    Science has failed to convince many people that vaccines do not cause autism. Will last week's court ruling finally change their minds?
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. February 19, 2009

  • The fear about peanut allergies is nuts

    Parents and medical groups are doing more harm than good stirring up worries about food allergies.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. February 5, 2009

  • Health for hard times

    A recession is good for our health, argues a current study making the media rounds. It needs a second opinion.
    By Rahul K. Parikh. M.D. December 22, 2008

  • Growth hormones for kids

    Normal boys and girls are taking growth hormones for being short. That's a bad prescription.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. October 31, 2008

  • Playing the doctor card

    I was aggravated by the treatment my mother was receiving in the hospital -- until I spoke up.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. September 26, 2008

  • Dr. Feelbad

    Modern medical practice is burning out doctors. That's bad for our health and yours. We need a cure. But first I need a nap.
    By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. August 29, 2008

  • I escaped death -- and now I want to live!

    Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?
    By Cary Tennis August 19, 2008

  • Doctors fighting about money: Now that's rich

    His parents paid for everything and mine did not. So I'm in debt and he isn't. Why are we fighting about this?
    By Cary Tennis August 18, 2008

  • Why "placebo" is not a dirty word

    Yes, alternative medicine works mostly by the power of suggestion. But so do a lot of conventional treatments.
    By Robert Burton August 1, 2008

  • Where have you gone, Marcus Welby?

    Family doctors are a dying breed that is not being revived by medical students. This is the healthcare crisis the candidates should be talking about.
    By Robert Burton July 8, 2008

  • My migraines make me feel like driving a pickax through my face!

    I need help dealing with these migraines or I don't know if I'll make it!
    By Cary Tennis July 3, 2008

  • Sick in the head

    I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
    By Jennifer Traig June 21, 2008

  • Hospital, USA

    This fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital is about much more than white coats and beeping consoles -- it's 21st-century America in a microcosm.
    By Laura Miller May 6, 2008

  • I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education

    How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
    By Cary Tennis April 9, 2008

  • Canadian healthcare: Not "universal" for single women

    Some doctors are conscience-clausing their way out of performing basic gynecological screening.
    By Lynn Harris February 27, 2008

  • A friend is doing chemo. What should I say?

    We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
    By Cary Tennis February 15, 2008

  • Should I move back to Wisconsin because my mother has cancer?

    I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
    By Cary Tennis February 6, 2008

  • Does the sex of your doctor matter?

    A new study finds that breast cancer patients treated by female surgeons were more likely to receive post-op radiation.
    By Carol Lloyd January 31, 2008

  • Don't be happy, worry

    Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
    By Jerome Weeks January 29, 2008

  • The abortion doctor

    Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
    By Eryn Loeb January 22, 2008
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