By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Sept. 20, 2013Influenza rocked our community hospital for weeks last winter just as the first snowstorms
For the health of each and all
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Sept. 6, 2013We physicians earn a place in society that yields great scientific and human insight,
A profession full of human beings
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Aug. 23, 2013A long time ago when I was about to apply to medical school and
Medicine As A Beleaguered Profession
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, August 3, 2013A young friend and keen analyst of social change made the observation that it
Colorado cardiologist sounds 'the eternal Yes!ā
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, July 26, 2013Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association at the beginning of July,
How human resilience reveals an unnecessarily cruel system
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, July 12, 2013Recently one of my patients, someone in a very frail state, insisted upon discharge
Independence Day
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, July 5, 2013Some day I hope our national holidays will become occasions for a full stop,
We need much more than Medicaid expansion
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By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, June 28, 2013It is common for people to assume that President Obamaās Affordable Care Act will
Celebrating our nurse colleagues
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, June 14, 2013I practice hospital medicine.Recently the nurses at our hospital voted to give me an
Immigrants heavily subsidize Medicare
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 31, 2013This week the prestigious journal Health Affairs published a new study that shows that
Scribbling in the Chart
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 24, 2013William Faulkner, the great American writer who was born in New Albany, Mississippi, wrote
Caregiving As Humankind's Shared Project
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By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P. WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 13, 2013In two recent essays Dr. Arthur Kleinman, the eminent Harvard anthropologist and psychiatrist,
