A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an electric shock was recently done in England to cure an ...

On February 23, the Family Medicine Interest Group hosted Family Medicine in the Valley, a lunchtime panel that brought three ...

Meditation was the focus of research at UC Davis and UCSF by Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and others as part ...

I heard it in several settings from family medicine clinic to a thoracic surgery operating room, from different levels of the ...

The healthcare facility in the San Francisco County jail looks like most clinics. It has exam rooms, a pharmacy, an X-ray ...

I met Em on the way home the night I expected B would die. We’d both missed the light like idiots, staring at our phones, looking up only as the sign counted down from 1. Seems out of our periphery we ...

Nowruz (or Norooz) marks the arrival of the new year and the first day of spring. It is an ancient tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope. It is celebrated in many countries, including Iran ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 1996. To fast or not to fast is what Ramadan is all about. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and this year it runs from Feb. 23 to March 23 ...

These lines reflect my gratitude for the opportunity to pause, re-center, and move forward with intention while pursuing my master’s degree at UCSF. As I stand here, I am still inspired by my mom, who ...

As a medical student, faculty frequently remind me that I am in a unique position. Medical students are unhindered by the restraints associated with paid institutional roles but empowered by our ...

For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how medicine responds to uncertainty and responsibility, and holds the accumulated ...