Reflections on a trip to West VirginiaBy Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, May 3, 2013Last week I had the privilege to visit
A Near Miss
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 26, 2013Many years back during my residency training, on my first overnight as the senior admitting
Upstate New York Greece
By Andrew D. Coates, MD, FACPWAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 19, 2013I live in upstate New York. If you're hearing this, chances are you do
Medicare and medicine as a profession
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 12, 2013Today I'd like to share some thinking about Medicare and medicine as a profession.Medicare
An adventure to make life worth living
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 5, 2013Helen Keller famously wrote that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." She continued: "To
Registered Nurses to the Rescue
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, March 29, 2013In a small news article this week in the New York Times, Nina Bernstein reported that
That's what you get when you kick the can down the road
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, March 22, 2013"Kicking the can down the road" is an idiom that means to defer something crucial in
