Commentary by David Biro, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and author of One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient. His new book, The Language of Pain, will be published by >> Read more
Month: January 2009
A Time For Celebration And Contemplation: Inauguration Day, 2009
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Founding editor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and editor, this blog. It seems these next few days require a blog entry that digresses from our usual sequence of invited essays. The moment is of >> Read more
Seven Reasons Why Doctors Write
Commentary by Tony Miksanek, M.D., family physician, short-story author, and coeditor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database As a profession, physicians are a remarkable group of writers. What doctors lack in good penmanship is more than compensated for by their skill >> Read more