‘Show up and share’: How one UCLA ICU helps patients and staff live with dying
Honoring a patient’s death can be life-affirming. That’s the ethos behind an UCLA initiative to support patients, their ...
A doctor you can text, call, and see within a day? Inside the growing model of ‘direct primary care.’
Proponents herald the practice as a free-market approach to providing medical care, while critics say it could widen health ...
Miss Manners: If only one of you is wearing clothes, then you’re not friends
As Miss Manners has pointed out, when people are friends, they either both have their clothes on or neither of them do. You ...
The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About
He was one of the few ICU patients whose face I saw in early 2021, when COVID raged through Los Angeles. As a palliative-care ...
Miss Manners: I’m a doctor. Can I address my physician by first name?
Dear Miss Manners: I’m a physician, so I am used to people addressing me as “Dr. Jones.” That includes both patients and ...