Dec 2, 2010
Some people claim that with the rapid growth of technological medicine, the patients’ perspective of their illness and care has been neglected. The Center for Humanistic Medicine (CHM) at Penn […]
Nov 1, 2010
Americans made more than one billion visits to doctors’ offices, emergency departments, and hospital outpatient offices in 2006—up 26 percent in a decade, according to the CDC. While these numbers […]
Sep 3, 2010
For new parents, caring for a crying baby can be very difficult, and often they are not aware of how frustrating it is until they are faced with a stressful […]
Aug 17, 2010
By the time lung cancer is diagnosed, it’s often too far along to cure. Right now, lung cancer kills more Americans than any other kind of cancer. Still, David Mu, […]
Aug 16, 2010
The Simulation Development and Cognitive Science Lab moved into the second floor of the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library in January 2010. The new space more than doubled the […]
Jul 2, 2010
As many of the day-shift employees are just arriving, still shaking off the morning grog and sipping coffee, Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll, MD, Ph.D., is already in surgical scrubs and doing something […]
Early children’s hospitals were places to keep sick kids comfortable, administer medicine, and take vital signs. There wasn’t a lot of hands-on healing happening. Instead, the main duty of the […]
When talk turns to critical health issues among women, common issues such as the appropriateness of the recent controversial mammography guidelines get the most attention. However, an often overlooked health […]
Jul 1, 2010
Dan McDougal, MD, ’71, passed away on May 10, from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). The story below was written just before his passing. When he was a young child, the […]
Students at medical schools everywhere have their up and down days. They listen to lectures and try to make sense of hundreds of new concepts sent their way in a […]
