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By Dhruv Khullar
In Humanism, Patient Care, Telemedicine
Posted January 22, 2020

Treating Regret

Despite the pervasiveness of regret, doctors often overlook it. We often don’t explore the role regret might be playing in the distress many patients and families experience, or acknowledge it [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Quality, Leadership
Posted November 21, 2019

Good Leaders Make Good Doctors

During our final year of medical training, I would take turns with the other senior residents responding to cardiac arrests in the hospital. We’d spend weeks camped out in the doctor’s lounge, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Physician Wellness, Physician Workforce
Posted July 25, 2019

How Job Stress Can Age Us

I noticed my first gray hair during my medical residency. It sneaked up on me at the end of a long, frenzied shift — one of those nights when Murphy’s Law seems stronger than the law of gravity. [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Disparities, Innovation
Posted January 31, 2019

A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities

Artificial intelligence is beginning to meet (and sometimes exceed) assessments by doctors in various clinical situations. A.I. can now diagnose skin cancer like [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Humanism, Patient Care
Posted December 19, 2018

The Hospital’s Gift of Downtime

Christmas week is a strange time in the hospital. There’s an added melancholy for patients who spend the holidays hospitalized — a sense that their illness, whatever it might be, is so bad they [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Lifestyle, Patient Care
Posted November 6, 2018

A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and Bad.

I recently cared for a hairdresser who had gone through a year of vague and varied symptoms. What started as a few unpleasant aches soon became debilitating pain throughout her body. A heavy [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Disparities, Patient Care, Politics
Posted October 9, 2018

Stigma Against Gay People Can Be Deadly

I’ve never been sure what to expect when meeting someone who’s just tried to take his own life. But I’ve learned to stop expecting anything. Sometimes, the person in front of me barely speaks, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Policy, Politics
Posted August 31, 2018

How Modern Medicine Has Changed the Supreme Court

Two related health trends mean that each Supreme Court nomination now has the potential to shape the nation’s highest court for far longer than in the past. One is that Americans live decades [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy, Social Determinants
Posted June 26, 2018

Is It Getting Harder to Care for Poor Patients?

In my more exasperated moments of residency, I must admit I was envious not only of what my supervising doctors knew, but also who they treated. Residents in our clinic, doctors in training just [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy
Posted June 20, 2018

Can Low-Intensity Care Solve High Health Care Costs?

How much you spend on medical care depends on what you get, but also where you get it. Confoundingly to many, the cost of the same procedure on the same patient by the same physician can vary by [...]

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