For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED’s curator, shares five keys to great presentations: Frame your story (figure out where to start and where to end). Plan your delivery (decide whether to memorize your speech word for word or develop bullet points and then rehearse it—over and over). Work on…
Dr. Ali Raja, of Mass General, also talks about the FDA’s approval of a new drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV.
Dr. Shadi Kourosh is the director of Dermatology for Community Health Program at Mass General Hospital.
New social media forum has promise, and a few flaws
The paradigm of developing a novel technology and applying it to a clinically relevant problem may be dominant in academic medicine, but more emphasis is…
Recent events that have sparked nationwide protests and conversations about racism in the United States, including the death of Breonna Taylor, underscore the need for…
In this narrative medicine essay, a physician shares his thoughts about how the phrase “there is no evidence to suggest,” commonly used in the medical…
The possible risks to patients are endless when a physician does not have access to complete medical information.
These people ignore praise, are highly self-critical, and attribute their successes to external factors, such as luck, hard work, or receiving help from others.
Does a single dose of ketamine or etomidate used for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) of critically adults in the ED impact the SOFA score within…
Deaths caused by firearms and poisonings increased substantially in the United States from 1999 to 2020, highlighting an urgent need for public health interventions, according…
