I’ll Do It for $1,110
By Robert Gray, MD Where I’m from, you can have someone killed for $5000. I will do it for $1,110. I’m a hand surgeon. I practice (or practiced, by the
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By Ashley Lane On December 31, 2011 right before midnight, I took the test of excitement and new beginnings and found out that I was pregnant. While this news was
Revealing Previously Unexposed Vulnerabilities
By Laura Sander, MD MPH “I walked in a person, and out a cancer patient,” my Dad said as we filed home. Crossing this threshold, we found ourselves on the
Compassionate Strategies and the Costs of Care
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The Cost of Dying
By JaBaris Swain, MD MPH It was probably the most awkward question I had been asked before, and I did not have an answer… He was a middle-aged gentleman, neatly dressed—very
The Costs of Illness
By Monica Williams-Murphy, MD Mrs. Sandra Jackson knew that she was no Warren Buffet. She knew that she was no Bill Gates. Instead, Mrs. Jackson knew that she worked two jobs,