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Fall 2025 November 2025Confronting a Rising Tide of Cancer Misinformation
As patients take to social media for medical advice, doctors’ empathy and trust-building skills are more important than ever, says oncologist Samyukta Mullangi
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Fall 2025 December 2025The Surprising Demographics of Physician Mortality
Women outlive men — but not in medicine
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Summer 2025 August 2025A Former Member of ACIP on the Dismantling of the Vaccine Recommendation Process
Lin Chen helped shape recommendations on vaccines. Now she worries about the future of the U.S. health care infrastructure and the spread of preventable disease.
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Summer 2025 August 2025David Kessler on What Doctors and Patients Should Know About GLP-1 Drugs
GLP-1 agonists have enormous potential for public health. But “we don’t know enough about how to use these drugs in the real world,” says the former head of the FDA.
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Spring 2025 May 2025Who Will Care for Cancer Survivors?
A growing number of patients living with and after cancer are shuffled between oncology and primary care. Can survivorship be transformed for both patients and physicians?
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Winter 2025 April 2025The Science of Good Stress
Sharon Horesh Bergquist talks about her new book on hormesis, which she calls “the medicine hidden in plain sight”
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Winter 2025 March 2025Teaching Doctors to Write for Patients
How patient access to medical notes is changing clinical documentation
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Winter 2025 February 2025Medicine, Burnout, and the Stories Doctors Tell
The editors of a new book argue that sharing stories of personal struggle can help doctors become better at their jobs.
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Winter 2025 February 2025The Fragility of Trust in Medicine
A physician struggles to build a strong relationship with a troubled teenage patient and her mother
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Fall 2024 October 2024Can AI Make Medicine More Human?
The history of tools used to support clinical decision-making offers clues to the future of medicine in the age of generative AI
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Summer 2024 August 2024What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You
Scientists have made great strides in predicting the genetic risk of common diseases. Figuring out what to do with that information may be just as hard.
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Summer 2024 July 2024Navigating the Uncertainties of Medicine
Embracing the unknown isn’t easy for either patients or doctors. HMS researchers are trying to help.
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Summer 2024 July 2024Helping Patients Cope with Fear of Cancer Recurrence
Psychologist Daniel Hall talks about understanding and managing the uncertainty that comes with a cancer diagnosis
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Summer 2024 June 2024Clinical Humility and the Limits of Medical Knowledge
Being willing to say “I don’t know” can help physicians build trust with patients and one another
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February 2024 Winter 2024Shared Identity and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Patients with demographically similar physicians tend to report increased satisfaction. Do they also have better health outcomes?
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