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Market Dynamics

Clayton Dalton on being a physician and writer.

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A Quiet Path Out of the Coronavirus Shadow

Mindfulness helped this ER doctor through a dark time. It can help us through these times.

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This Covid wave has trapped healthcare workers in a nightmare. I see it every day

Celebrating healthcare workers as ‘heroes’ obscures the systemic failures that forced us to fill the gap.

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Why a Negative Test Doesn’t Guarantee You Don’t Have the Coronavirus

We want coronavirus tests to give us the all-clear. But, in medicine, test results are clues, not answers—and no test is perfect.

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So How Deadly Is COVID-19?

We still don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter right now; it’s plenty deadly.

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The Risks of Normalizing the Coronavirus

To cope with the unimaginable, doctors are becoming numbingly familiar with mass death.

Refrigeration trucks are serving as temporary morgues in New York City.
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My Patients Are Sick And Alone

What The Pandemic Can Teach Us All About Intimacy

What The Pandemic Can Teach Us All About Intimacy
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A Boston Hospital Nears Its Limits

The system is coping, but the intensity of COVID-19 has surprised even experienced doctors.

ER doctors transport a patient on a stretcher outside of an ambulance.
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In Boston, Doctors Wait for the Deluge

Hospitals in the city are eerily quiet—emptied out in preparation for the surge in COVID-19 cases to come.

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I'm an ER doctor. Please take coronavirus seriously

Most people don’t understand exponential growth. If they did, they’d be far more frightened.

Chart of Corona virus cases on the rise.