Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today

Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.

Meg Leja, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York • conversation
Nov. 2, 2023 • ~10 min

MEDscience program finds benefits to videoconferencing approach

Students from as far away as Africa and Asia are benefiting from a COVID-prompted shift online of an HMS program that gives high schoolers a taste of life in the exam room.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Aug. 17, 2020 • ~8 min

Doctors can't treat COVID-19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health

While African Americans account for about 14% of the US population, they have accounted for about 60% of deaths from the virus. Several physicians offer an idea they think could help.

Ryan Huerto, Family Medicine Physician, Health Services Researcher and Clinical Lecturer, University of Michigan • conversation
June 3, 2020 • ~8 min

Study: Capping medical residents’ hours doesn’t hurt quality of care

Hours of medical residents were capped at 80 per week in 2003 after a string of patient injuries and deaths, spurring fears that doctors-in-training would be less prepared for independent practice than before. A new study suggests their warnings were largely unjustified.

Jake Miller • harvard
July 11, 2019 • ~5 min

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