Health care is a right, not a privilege
The following is a review of the Beatrix Hoffman book Health Care For Some. Global health doesn’t exclude our own national situation, and in many
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Progress Notes
Foot health: steps in the right direction
Foot health is not something that patients think about very often. Feet are very far away (relatively speaking) and often hiding inside shoes (out of
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The cost of medical innovation
Not long ago, hepatitis C was a haunting virus. Once in the bloodstream, these biological invaders would unleash themselves on the liver and commandeer host
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A house of hope: volunteering at Angela House
The Matthew Carter Service Day started 14 years ago when a talented and well-loved Baylor College of Medicine medical student, Matthew Carter, was murdered. To
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Welcome to the new Progress Notes
It is easy to see that Baylor College of Medicine students study hard and work even harder on the wards. Less apparent are the creative
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Compassion, honesty and illness: My month in critical care
By Natalie Uy, MS3 Delicate, difficult, and compassionate. That’s how I would sum up my month of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and ICU. I saw an incredible
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How fears change
By Anup Shah, MS4 When medical students start their clinical rotations, there seems to be a fear that comes with presenting a patient to residents
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White Coat advice from an MS3
(Editor’s note: This post is a speech given at the White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2016, in August 2012, when author and former
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The skydiver
By Donna Huang, Medical Resident He was a man who could fly, or at least “fall for a long time,” as he liked to explain with
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The first time your patient dies
By Anup Shah, MS4 (Author’s Note: It has been over a year since this patient passed, but I continue to remember this as one of
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