Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  A new rite of passage is taking hold among ambitious young doctors entering modern practice in a new century. It can take a year or two after medical school:...

Cuba’s revolutionary vanguard: US medical students Keasha Guerrier, Kereese Gayle and Akua Brown Three winters ago our Open Source trip to Cuba turned around on an astonishing moment of serendipity. At...

In the annals of Boston medicine two historic chapters in the last 50 years were the near conquest of sudden death by heart attack and (not unrelated) the rise of...

Eugene Braunwald, who gets credit for presiding over the modern science of cardiology, is reminding us how little, in fact, the best doctors and textbooks professed to know about heart...

The Doctor has to be comfortable with accepting that death is not their own failure, but that death is a natural event, and that medical care can help people die...