A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

On February 23, the Family Medicine Interest Group hosted Family Medicine in the Valley, a lunchtime panel that brought three ...

Meditation was the focus of research at UC Davis and UCSF by Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and others as part ...

The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most clinics. It has exam rooms, a pharmacy, an X-ray ...

I heard it in several settings from family medicine clinic to a thoracic surgery operating room, from different levels of the ...

I met Em on the way home the night I expected B would die. We’d both missed the light like idiots, staring at our phones, looking up only as the sign counted down from 1. Seems out of our periphery we ...

Nowruz (or Norooz) marks the arrival of the new year and the first day of spring. It is an ancient tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope. It is celebrated in many countries, including Iran ...

Entering clinical environments for the first time as a medical student, I expected to hear common phrases of wisdom. I... [Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of ...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...