Department: Writing + Reviews

On bureaucracies and always being prepared.

Where's the fun in being a "married bachelor"? Steve Sullivan, MD, shares his strategies for coping. Thankfully, it wasn't a permanent condition!

Max considers drugs and baby boomers.

In an instant, a day of ordinary work on a mountain ranch turns into a day of terror.

A PT learns from her own experience as a patient at a cancer clinic.

Max looks at the modern pharmacy.

Some things seem like fun at the outset …. Steve Sullivan documents his desert dash and conquering the Mother of all hills!

Based on many years of working in an inner-city clinic, a nurse practitioner provides practical advice for realistic results.

The long-time liberal looks at costs and rewards.

You never forget some patients. Michael Moreton, an obstetrician, recalls one of his most memorable.

"Emergencies" and schedules.

How people love their drugs!

How people react when the pharmacy is busy.

It's late, your husband has run off, you've no friends or family to call, so who do you call?

A simple daily ritual can do wonders for uplifting the soul.

Dr. John McCrae wrote one of the best-known poems of World War I, "In Flanders Fields."

The bars are closed. Need to talk? Call the pharmacist.

Samuel Uretsky, PharmD, tells us about those drugs that have so many off-label uses, one might think they're miraculous.

Max learns three lessons, and may have saved a life.

Who would have known that a pharmacy could be so busy at 6am? Or that they had three patients with the same name?