In January of this year, I challenged myself and my Facebook friends to read 50 books. I created a Facebook group where we could share book reviews and recommendations and I posted my updates using the hashtag #50Books2015. Well, I didn't quite complete the challenge but I'm motivated to give it another try next year. … Continue reading My Year in Print #50Books2015
I'm in Baltimore attending the Association of American Medical Colleges' annual meeting and this year's meeting focus is social justice and racial inequity as contributors to health disparities. I just left an informative, timely, standing room only session on holistic review in admissions that revisited the Supreme Court's consideration of the Fisher vs University of Texas … Continue reading Drawing a Line in the Sand
Atul Gawande's Being Mortal is a brutally honest, but carefully crafted confrontation with mortality. None of us comes here to stay, but it is rare to spend time thinking strategically about earthly departure, until it seems near and inevitable. In the throws of terminal illnesses, Americans often choose costly medical procedures that don't prolong life and … Continue reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Listening Aloud 