Ask the Expert: Elizabeth Goldberg
Can the Apple Watch accurately diagnose atrial fibrillation?
X-Ray Vision
An aspiring radiologist designs an award-winning algorithm to detect pneumonia.
True Colors
The best health care for people who are transgender is much like the best care for all people.
Oh, Pioneers!
The inaugural class of the Primary Care-Population Medicine program brings a system-wide perspective to patient care.
Physician Plus
A new kind of doctor who treats patients and systems.
Second Chance
Two Brown professors have perfected a treatment for the most severe kinds of strokes. Now they’re working to change the…
Walk with Me
In rural Mexico, physicians take care of the whole person, not just their illness.
Listen and Learn
Julie Roth ’99 MD’04 RES’05 F’09
Pickles and Ice Cream and Other Fables
What’s true and what’s bunk about pregnancy. Parents have been trying to choose the sex of their baby for millennia,…
Music as Medicine
After private mini-concerts, hospice patients report less pain and anxiety and request fewer opioids. You’d expect to hear the high,…
Birds of Prey
Doctor and patient connect over a shared passion. On a sun-drenched evening last summer, I admitted an elderly woman with…
Back to Bangladesh
Volunteers work to stem the tide of TB among the Rohingya. It was mid-morning when the bus slowed down. An…
Close Call
A surgeon becomes the patient. The bedside manner of surgeons is stereotypically cut and dry, but a near-death experience—his own—gave…
General Practice
The chief medical officer for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Health and Human Services…
Vocal Advocate
Sarah Wakeman ’05 MD’09, an addiction medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, is describing one of her patients. He was…
For the Ages
A one-time interim dean dedicated his career to improving how we care for older people. You could say he’s been…
Priming the Pump
An NIH-funded collaboration is kick-starting research on the No. 1 killer of humans Across the city of Providence, an unlikely…
Obituary: Wilma Sylvia Friedman Rosen
Wilma Sylvia Friedman Rosen P’86, MD, of Providence, died July 7, 2018. She was 89. A clinical assistant professor emerita…
Right At Home
A new center focused on inflammatory bowel disease brings high-quality care to Rhode Islanders. Melissa Cote started feeling sick a…
Body Double
A cadaver’s spine crippled by severe scoliosis may be a sight only an aspiring doctor could love. And it enthralled…
Light the Spark
Local teens get a firsthand look at health careers. Before last summer, Esther Duran, a high school student from Warren,…
Why is sleep apnea underdiagnosed in women?
Katherine Sharkey, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and of psychiatry and human behavior who studies sleep and circadian…
This is Your Brain on Booze
Alcohol triggers a wide range of ill effects—from poor sleep to crippling hangovers to blackouts—yet few people are thus moved…