I’d been told in my hospital sign-out that Melanie was transgender, but I stumbled on the first day and referred to her as “he” in front of my medical team. “She!” she said immediately. I was a hospitalist teaching medical students at one of the most liberal medical schools in the country — University of California, San Francisco. I should have known better.
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Fentanyl at Forty
Matt was 40, my sister’s age. He was training for a marathon and trying to talk his many friends into joining. He lay in bed with his three-year-old son every night to help him fall asleep. It’s hard to sleep train a toddler with a newborn to nurture at the same time, but he loved spending this time with his two kids and being the dad everyone counted on.
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Dr. Feelgood
Pop some popcorn for this spellbinding movie produced by my friends Dr. Alison Block and Dr. Tim Poore! This short documentary tells the roller-coaster ride of Dr. William Hurwitz, a maverick opioid prescriber who at one point was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Even after finishing the film, I’m still left wondering whether Hurwitz was highly delusional or deviously strategic.
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