Research increasingly shows that preconceptions around gender and race can cloud clinical thinking.
Some diagnoses cause damage to health. The issue is increasingly of interest to physicians.
The route to a diagnosis is straightforward in modern medicine, right? It’s anything but, according to Bedside Rounds host Adam Rodman.
For a century, carefully selected MGH patient histories have illuminated the art of medicine.
New data may solve two of the most famous “cold cases” in medical history—the deaths of Ernest Shackleton and Edgar Allen Poe.
People who live with a disability are no stranger to overcoming obstacles. But the bias of a clinician shouldn’t be one of them.
Medical research labs have faced a difficult stretch of closed buildings and competing priorities. Yet they have also produced milestone discoveries—and not only on COVID-19.
The ascendance of virtual and distanced care has taken place with extraordinary speed. Lee Schwamm discusses which innovations are likely to stick and some bumps in the road ahead.
The crises of racism and COVID-19 overlap and reinforce one another. What steps can medicine take to make the pandemic response more just?
Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger’s TED talk about what makes a good life has been viewed more than 32 million times. Can those rules be applied to quarantining as well?
How can literature serve medicine? An interview with the first “writer-in-residence” at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The body can behave strangely at high altitudes. What can that teach researchers about life at sea level?
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