Don’t Forget to KISS Your Audience!
For hematologists around the world, a definite highlight of each year is the December American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, which now draws...
Editor’s Corner: Wellness 2.0
We’re all talking and thinking about wellness.
You couldn’t miss the emphasis at the 2019 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. There was the...
Editor’s Corner: 2020 Visions
I have worried about the year 2020 since I was small.
My long-standing unease about 2020 and the trouble it might bring is not because...
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...
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January 2020 Annual Meeting Edition
This issue features highlights from the 2019 ASH Annual Meeting, reflections on physician wellness, and more.
