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2017 Summer reading for compassionate clinicians
June 13, 2017
Molly Olmsted

compiled by Molly Olmsted Here are a few 2016 and 2017 releases we’re looking forward to reading this summer: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity by Ronald Epstein “Attending” is both a term for … chevron_right Read more

Review of “Blood Lines” by Paul McLean
August 12, 2016
Molly Olmsted

When Paul and Jody McLean went to pick up their new beagle, her name was nothing more than a four-digit number tattooed on her inner ear. Hutch, as she later … chevron_right Read more

Review of “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
June 29, 2016
Molly Olmsted

I flipped through the CT scan images, the diagnosis obvious: the lungs were matted with innumerable tumors, the spine deformed, a full lobe of the liver obliterated. Cancer, widely disseminated. … chevron_right Read more

2016 summer reading for compassionate clinicians

compiled by Molly Olmsted Here are a few 2015 and 2016 releases we’re looking forward to reading this Summer! What’s on your to-read list? When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi … chevron_right Read more

Review of “Heart Murmurs” by Sharon Dobie
December 8, 2015

by Molly Olmsted “It was quiet while they wrote,”  states Valerie Ross, MS in describing workshops in which physicians wrote about coming to know themselves better through interactions with their patients. The stories that … chevron_right Read more