doctors Archives - The American Scholar

Opioids and Paternalism

By David Brown | 09/05/2017 |

To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain

Mind Games

By Charlotte Salley | 09/05/2017 |

Healing patients, literally and virtually

“How Bad Is Your Pain?”

By Raj Telhan | 09/05/2017 |

Notes on the nature of suffering

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By Maud Casey | 09/05/2017 |

Elevated

By Phillip Lopate | 06/10/2016 |

Alone in space

Off the Charts

By Brad Edmondson | 12/07/2015 |

Introducing doctors to their patients

You’d Look Great in This Model

By Vicki Valosik | 06/08/2015 |

Failure to Heal

By Philip Alcabes | 03/04/2015 |

Today’s medical industry thrives on diagnosing and curing, but it doesn’t reach the soul

Heal for America

By William Deresiewicz | 07/21/2013 |

A modest proposal to improve our health-care system

Intimacy With the Inevitable

By William Harless | 06/10/2013 |

A doctor’s journey, from student to resident to consoler of the dying