[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed...

I returned to the Patient Support Corps this past year as a medical student and was reminded that many of...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how...

[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for non fiction.] S: Subjective. “June” is a 79-year-old woman with a...

Surgery — one of the three primary treatment options for cancer, alongside radiation and chemotherapy — had always been a...