Author's Picks
A few of Dr. Newman's favorite columns from over the years.
Baron
A miniature horse can have a large impact.
Zero-truth medical updates
Catch up on the latest imaginary medical news, from manic mannequins to microleeches.
Thoracic Park
Get ready for the medical remakes of your favorite blockbuster movies.
Rounding with the Bard
Shakespeare's words apply to hospital medicine, a fictional physician finds.
House of Cards-iology
Hospital administration can sometimes be ruthless.
Newman's handy-dandy recommendation letter
A tongue-in-cheek template for handling recommendation requests.
Generic discharge summary*
What's lost in accuracy will be more than compensated with personal time saved.
Top 10 reasons not to discharge your patient
Our editorial advisor examines length of stay.
Day of the undead: The zombie intern
I didn't think my fellow first-years were really worried about my consuming them, but you never know about the strange prejudices of the living.
Heroic measures
A locum tenens has a strange experience at a new hospital.
Write it up
The source of my tension on this particular day was Karin, the incredibly intense fourth-year medical student rounding with me.
Locum terror
Here I was pulling into the staff parking lot of a funky old private sanitarium in the middle of stinking nowhere. I rang the bell and the creaky door swung open. A very pale and dusty nurse pointed to the staff lounge, but said nothing, though I seemed to detect the ghost of a smile.
Hooked on mnemonics
Memory is elusive (and of course, it “lights the corners of my mind” or at least Barbra Streisand's mind). That's why there are so many tricks to remembering things, like acronyms, acrostics, rhyming keys, the image-name technique and the keyword method.