WRITER * ARTIST * DOCTOR * PATIENT * MOTHER
Sometimes a rash is more than superficial. Without looking beyond the skin, its cause can remain undiscovered. Read more in my latest piece in Discover magazine … subscribe (all whole year for just the cost of a few fancy coffees!) to read the whole thing!
It had been preoccupying me for weeks. It was embarrassing, unexpected and probably meant nothing, I thought. As my doctor’s hand clasped the doorknob, I finally sought reassurance. “I feel like I’ve been gaining weight,” I mumbled … Read more in my first Vital Signs column in the June issue. If you don’t already have a…
“Doktè, li son tankou oseyan an!” he murmured in Haitian Creole, looking up at me incredulously. In English, “Doctor, it sounds like the ocean!” I had paused on morning rounds to offer the young man my stethoscope so he could hear his own heart. I was a new doctor; he was a new immigrant. Daniel* was…