CMAJ• APR. 3, 2001; 164 (7) 1029 venous steroids. She had gone blind in one eye several
weeks before as a result of optic neuritis, and her vision had only recently begun to return …

I've often thought that I am the most unlikely physician imaginable. I had a horror of illness
and medicine when I was younger, and things didn't change much as I got older. Shortly …

I've been thinking about Rainer Maria Rilke lately and what it means to be a doctor. In
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” Rilke advised that in order to become something, one must change …

Whether you are doctor, patient, or lover of literature, read this book. In it you will find a
collection of stories, essays, and poems that originally appeared in Annals of Internal …

That's it; I'm going to med school". And as New Years Eve 2008 rolled into 2009, that thought
set into motion events that would sweep my family and I from the Bayou City of Houston …

When I began my career, medicine was science. Patients were objects that could be fixed.
The art of medicine was early-morning fog on the river, a natural but intermittent …

“I had to grow up fast. I had a job to do, and no one else was there to do it. Now I run my
businesses four days a week so I can care for my mom the other days.” The “black and …

medical career. Mr. Coldger was an elderly gentleman I'd been seeing for a constellation of
problems: diabetic neuropathy, congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, atrial …

I dropped by a few times on my in-house calls, whenever fires had been put out and before
new ones burst out. We indulged in “surgery-bashing parties,” where we called the surgeons …

P: What, to start my meds? No, I think I need to start my meds. D: Yeah, you do, but if you
start them, you need to take them. P: Oh, I know, I know. I promise you I would. D: But you …