Dialogue
When the doctor is the patient
Robert L. Klitzman, M.D. ’85, expected the grief that followed the death of his sister Karen, who died at the age of 38...
A Yale librarian upgrades Internet access for physicians in Uganda
When librarian Mark Gentry, M.A., M.L.S., set out to expand Internet access at a hospital in Uganda, he experienced...
Polarities of Experiences: Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process
by Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology (American Psychological Association) The author...
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills
by Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, and director of the Yale Parenting Center and...
Lawsuits could bankrupt vaccine program
A program that encourages childhood vaccinations could collapse under unproven allegations that the shots cause...
A gene to protect bone marrow from chemotherapy
In a new approach to cancer treatment, researchers are studying a form of gene therapy that may make bone marrow more...
Children, foster care and orphanages
When Nicolae Ceauşescu took power in Romania in 1965, he believed that his country needed a larger work force. He...
Bolero, dementia and the creative process
In 1930, when Maurice Ravel composed Bolero, his best-known work, he may have been in the throes of frontotemporal...
We should expect our students to be literate
It was with some sadness that I read of the teaching of ethics by my colleague, Alan A. Stone, M.D. ’55, to his...
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