Department: Writing + Reviews

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?

Max learns a new way of speaking – and about how well trained he wasn't!

A cat attacks a rabbit and prompts reflection on instinct, life, and death.

Max puts aside semi-retirement to work semi-full-time as a relief neighborhood pharmacist in and around New York City.

And now for the little-known disorders which may or may not be exclusive to the working population!

Do you experience malaise following workplace parties? Are you hypo- or hyperactive when the boss is away? Have you ever worked on the day after Thanksgiving?

Depression is a growing problem. But why, nowadays, do pills seem to be the only solution?

It's standard to assume that hospitals are scary nightmares for children …

Stranger in a strange land? Bruce Petty shows that you're not as alone as you think.

Mark braves the no-win situation to tell it like it is!

When his father was hospitalized for surgery, Mark gained a real appreciation for what healthcare professionals endure.

A nurse writes of her experience sitting at a patient's bedside – sitting next to Death.

Take an entertaining and enlightening trip through a collection of legal cases and find out what does – and, maybe more surprisingly, does not – constitute sexual harassment.

An old man tells his young nurse never to get old.

Unsolved medical mysteries are finally getting diagnosed.

The story of a nurse's longstanding relationship with an "awful, stinking, nasty, evil, vicious" thing …

Is the pen mightier than the sword? Sometimes it depends on whose pen it is!

What constitutes a genuine medical condition and what constitutes a stigma – or an excuse?