Narrative Medicine, coined by Columbia University’s Dr. Rita Charon, aims to address the feelings and experiences that occur when caring for persons with illness.

In this case, a three-year-old patient with a history of mal-rotated bowels since birth, presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain.

Telemedicine (aka telehealth) is the practice of medicine using electronic communication and information technology between a healthcare provider in one location and a patient in another location, essentially a remote or virtual encounter.

Beauty and wellness appear synonymous in American culture, as if one could not exist without the other. With consumers' seemingly endless pursuit of health and beauty, the field of medical aesthetics has exploded, and continues to grow.

An advance directive is fundamental to self-autonomy, an opportunity to assert control over our own lives, with the expectation that our end-of-life preferences will be honored and be inviolable.