WRITER * ARTIST * DOCTOR * PATIENT * MOTHER
“Mary is sharp as a tack!,” my grandmother marveled, “And she’s excited to meet you.” We walked down the quiet carpeted hall of my grandmother’s retirement community toward Mary’s apartment. She opened the door, eyes bright and snow-white hair coiffed into a chignon. “Welcome! Always good to meet another doctor,” she exclaimed, “Though it’s…
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!
“That’s no Brooklyn spider!” I thought. When an extra moment, another question, a chat about a spider brings the truth. Read all about it in my latest piece in Academic Medicine – a short but memorable lesson from the ward when I was a medical student If you’d rather listen than read, you can hear it…
You can’t bargain with your life. Everyone, rich or poor, deserves access to affordable healthcare. Learn why in my latest post on www.scarymommy.com.
It lurked in the back corner, the deep blues and verdant greens of its leafy pattern still gorgeous despite the fluorescent lights overhead. Even from 30 feet away, I knew it was a prize – a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress in the ultra mark-down section of Loehmann’s, the legendary New York discount store. I…