“In a hospital in the heart of the British empire, two young patients from worlds away strike up a friendship.”
hospital
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix
“Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted.”
Posted inFeature
The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever
While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Waiting at a Texas Hospital for Children Who Never Arrive
“We wanted to have never heard of them, but then we wanted them here.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Sent Home to Die
In New Orleans, hospitals sent infected COVID patients into hospice facilities or back home to die — to family members untrained and unprepared to care for them — and in some cases discontinuing treatment against the family’s wishes.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will
On racism in medicine, body autonomy, and one Black doctor’s experience in the ER.