Hospital at Home

Mr. Smith was a sixty-eight year old man who came to the Veterans Affairs hospital where I was a medical student complaining of chest pain. “With chest pain, it’s all about the story,” my resident, the physician in charge of our team, said.  We talked to him to find out what he was doing when … Continue reading

Slow Medicine

Time heals all wounds, they say, or, in medicine, if not all, then many.  But with our improved efficiency and throughput of patients, we fail to allow this most magical treatment to work.  The pace and intensity of medicine has increased exponentially over the past several decades.  We see more doctors, have more procedures, take … Continue reading