Selected Clips

New Haven Advocate

Little Horrors. Flesh-eating beetles. 'Nuff said. (PDF)
Review of The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande. "Preflight" lists for doctors? (PDF)
Hot Topic: Breast Cancer. New mammogram guidelines are leaving a lot of women confused. (PDF)

When medicine meets the business world. Doctors as entrepreneurs.
A month in Indonesia. Medicine beside the rain forest.
From Cedar Street to Capitol Hill. Doctors in policy.
When scientists become artists. That microscopic image may be pretty, but is it art?
Internal medicine continues outreach with focus on "human infrastructure" abroad. Why short stints in the developing world aren't enough.
As the medical center grows, so grows the city. Fixing the mistakes of urban renewal.
As doctors hand off patients, miscommunication at sign-outs can cause errors. Efforts are underway to fix that.
A tortured soul finds redemption in words. How a schizophrenic physician helped shape the Oxford English Dictionary.
Biologists find molecule that guides axons: A receptor implicated in Down syndrome charts a path for nerve fibers.
Bacteria disable immune cells by exploiting a genetic similarity.
A career fighting infectious disease. From a Navajo reservation to an anthrax attack, this epidemiologist has been there.
From the beautiful to the obscure. The thrilling obscurity of medical jargon.

A philosopher with a plan. Thomas Pogge's Health Impact Fund hopes to give Big Pharma an incentive to sell life-saving drugs at cost.
Why the HPV vaccine has stalled.
Killer genes. For some people, brain aneurysms run in the family.

Hartford Courant (Connecticut). “First Opinion,” column appearing biweekly or monthly, on experiences as a medical student and resident. 2002–2007.