COVID-19: The Global Disrupter of Medical Education
On January 7, health officials confirmed that cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, which Chinese authorities had notified the World Health Organization about in...
Editor’s Corner: The China Conundrum
As I begin writing this editorial, nanoscience expert Charles Lieber, PhD, Chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is sitting in...
Editor’s Corner: 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...
Current Issue
March 2020, Volume 6, Issue 4
This issue looks at how cost-effective analyses are used to inform health-care decisions, explains the latest maintenance of certification requirements, and more.
