My Patients, My Lanes
About a year ago, the National Rifle Association (NRA) tweeted an invective aimed at physicians who advocated for gun control, to the tune of...
Grief Tacos
Life is hard. People are resilient.
I gave birth to our second son this past February. There are some things about the second kid that...
Fathers (and Mothers) of Hematology
In 1963, Boston hematologist William Dameshek wrote an essay in the journal he’d founded 17 years earlier, Blood, describing 18th-century English anatomist William Hewson’s detailed...
Our Identity Crisis
I recently embarked on a quest to determine who we are and what we do as hematologists. I figured it couldn’t be that hard, getting...
The Biggest Losers
(Author’s note: The other biggest losers appearing herein will remain nameless and will owe me a nice dinner for sparing them, but more on...
Modern Medicine and Modern Stoicism
One of the things I have found myself particularly struggling with as a fairly new attending is accepting that patients are free to make...
Illegitimi EPIC Non Carborundum (Don’t Let the EPIC Bastards Grind You Down)
After having served a recent tour of duty caring for patients in the hospital, I was reminded by the hospital’s billing department that I...
Physician (Un)wellness
I’ve been mulling over the concept of wellness, or really on unwellness, for the past several months. You can’t read a publication without someone...
The Day I Was Schooled on CME
I put the final exclamation point on the “Thank you!!!” slide for a local continuing medical education (CME) talk on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and...
The Color of Blood and “Exohematology”
Spilled blood’s brilliant red color has a rich symbolic history. The crimson color chemistry of porphyrin-bound iron ions led our ancestors to equate red...
Current Issue
December 2019, Volume 5, Issue 15
This issue examines the hidden costs of participating in clinical trials, explores the pediatric hematology/oncology workforce, and more.
