Note: This article was originally published on my Substack where, due to the public’s issue on this topic, it attracted a significant amount of attention (e.g., a tweet about it received over 500,000 views). This article takes into account the hundreds of shedding injury stories have received and the original will continue to be revised… Read More »
Hiiii friends! How are you? How was the weekend? I hope you had a great one! We had our first *full* weekend in a long time and it felt awesome. I was so happy to get to go to a couple of parties and have an amazing dinner with friends. I’m an oddly superstitious person,… Read More »
When Dr. Craig Spencer got on the New York City subway Monday morning following an overnight hospital shift, the emergency room doctor said all the people he saw were wearing masks. “I think that people here remember how bad it was, really just a month, two months, ago and we don’t want to go through… Read More »
Getty Images When the news broke in April that filmmaker John Singleton had died from a stroke, at only 51 years old, fans and colleagues were shocked by the untimely and completely unexpected loss. In the wake of this tragedy, we’ve since found out that a number of other celebrated Black men are dying from… Read More »
Careful management of bipolar disorder during pregnancy is critical because for so many patients with this illness, the road to emotional well-being has been a long one, requiring a combination of careful pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies.Half of referrals to our Center for Women’s Mental Health – where we evaluate and treat women before, during, and… Read More »
1. Cover your patients It was my first year of practice. One day I saw a new patient, a 25-year-old man with hemorrhoidal pain. My nurse told him to disrobe and put on a lap sheet. When I entered the room, I was surprised to see that the young man was sitting on the exam… Read More »