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Cropped image of female pharmacist consoling senior man in store. Smiling male customer is looking at medical provider

A Seemingly Simple Smile

On a beautiful Friday morning in the spring of 2020, Mr. B awaited his first dose of pembrolizumab in…
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A Novel Fight: The Global War on the novo-coronavirus, COVID-19

World War III: a fight we never hoped to see, nor imagined would have come in form of a…
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My First Patient

Do you remember your first patient in your chosen specialty, or what was to be your chosen specialty?
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East and West – Cultural Contrasts in Social Interacting and Physical Distancing

Before I moved to the United States from India almost two decades ago, my usual way to greet people…
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When God Speaks to Me

Look at the flowers. View the beauty in the chaos. All the different flowers, grasses, and entanglements of green.
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Puffy Girl Problems

Lights, bright lights, blurry lights, headlights, flashing ambulance lights, EMT flashlights, fluorescent hospital lights. That’s probably some of…
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George Macready and the Art of Family Medicine Publications

I’m not a medical doctor. I don’t even play one on TV. My background is in education and journalism,…
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The Shoes Have Eyes

Her eyes, still fixed on her Converse, began to well up with tears. One escaped and traced an…
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The Revolution in Neuroscience

…neuroscientists feel overwhelmed by the proliferation of their own literature, but also the sheer number of “breakthroughs” published adds…
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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, perhaps the most honored and well-known Latin American novelist of the modern age was born in…
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