My cheap, fast and effective treatment in New Delhi reminded me of everything wrong with American healthcare
By Aruna Viswanatha Sep 3, 2009
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He's hiding drinks and breaking things, and I don't know what to say
By Cary Tennis
August 12, 2009
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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
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A study reveals a gender bias in intensive care treatment.
By Carol Lloyd
November 15, 2007
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In "House," impossibly gorgeous physicians miraculously diagnose rare diseases in every episode. Where I work as a nurse, in the Ordinary Hospital, sometimes there's not even a doctor in the house.
By Sallie Tisdale
April 4, 2007
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He thought he'd be returning home to die. But she just strung him along until he was gone.
By Cary Tennis
August 22, 2008
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Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?
By Cary Tennis
August 19, 2008
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I need help dealing with these migraines or I don't know if I'll make it!
By Cary Tennis
July 3, 2008
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I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
By Cary Tennis
February 6, 2008
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My wife and I could live anywhere and have great success as doctors, but my mother and sister are ill and need help at home.
By Cary Tennis
October 16, 2007
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I was fed up with this woman. Then she got her diagnosis.
By Cary Tennis
October 3, 2007
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Welcome home ... to hell.
By David Puner
March 6, 2007
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Anonymous baby hatches save the lives of unwanted infants -- but what about those infants' desperate mothers?
By Carol Lloyd
November 9, 2006
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Hospitals to stop sending new moms home with formula freebies.
By Lynn Harris
December 21, 2005
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Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system.
By Brandon Sprague and Adam Shemper
August 28, 2003
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Nobody knows how many thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed -- and the U.S. doesn't seem eager to let reporters find out.
By Ferry Biedermann
April 22, 2003
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"My Dead Relative," "My After-School Special," "Boo-Hoo" and other essays that might get you a job after medical school.
By Aran Kadar
February 26, 2002
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This summer thousands of med school graduates will be unleashed on unsuspecting patients, and I know why the public should be scared.
By Jeff Drayer
June 5, 2000
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I have a well-chosen capsule for every occasion.
By Elissa Schappell
April 20, 2000
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Even after doing it hundreds of times, it's never easy to ask someone whether they want you to let them die.
By Jeff Drayer
March 27, 2000
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The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help.
By James B. Stewart
December 1, 1999
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Medical scientists predict technologies such as animal-to-human organ transplants and toilets that send info to your doctor.
By Jon Bowen
November 17, 1999
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Scorsese's manic, well-acted paramedic pic needs a fast ride back to the E.R.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 22, 1999
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An excerpt from a powerful novel about how disease affects body and soul.
By Fran Gordon
October 20, 1999
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Are you one of the 19 million who will suffer from a depressive illness this year?
By Jon Bowen
October 7, 1999
How I got well in India for $50
My dad, the surgeon, is drinking
Hospital, USA
Is there sexism in lifesaving?
The Beautiful Hospital
Stewart on Walter Reed
Baghdad's shame
What happened to Iraq's army?
Diary of a hospital application reader
Bedside terror
Glenn Greenwald
War Room