On my first day back to work from maternity leave, Mrs. Gabriella was waiting patiently in my office. Her face…
Getting Unstuck: Challenges and opportunities in caring for patients experiencing prolonged hospitalization while medically ready for discharge
Many physicians care for patients who remain in the hospital for prolonged periods despite being ‘medical ready’ or stable for…
‘Feeling Like Death’: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Virus Peak
As young patients fill new virus wards, Houston Methodist is calling nurses to work extra shifts and ramping up its…
Mask Exemption Cards From the ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency’? They’re Fake
The group, which is selling the cards online, is not a real government organization, federal officials said.
A subset of epithelial cells mimics regulatory T cells and contributes to immune evasion during development of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Pancreatic cancer is refractory to most current treatment options. Immunotherapy emerges as an effective and novel therapeutic strategy for several…
Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales
COVID-19 poses one of the most profound public health crises for a hundred years. As of mid-May 2020, across the…
Lumbar punctures and cerebrospinal fluid analysis
Lumbar puncture is an essential neurological investigation. The anatomy of the spinal canal allows cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to be sampled…
Coma and brainstem death
The patient in coma needs a rigorous clinical assessment that requires a meticulous approach to history-taking, and a systematic approach…
Neurology and the clinical anatomist
Clinical examination allows the neurologist to test hypotheses generated by their interpretation of the patient’s story. By eliciting abnormal clinical…
Neurology and the clinical historian
If clinicians are considered the historians, and patients the story-tellers, the approach to the task of taking ‘the’ history can…