Valor and fear in surgeons
By Stephen Bergman | October 13, 2008 RECENTLY A Boston hospital was cited for “hours violations” by the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (one of 227 violators this year), and was...
View ArticleThe pitting of doctor against doctor
Boston Globe June 7, 2009 THE REASONS for the shortage of primary-care doctors have been clearly described: low pay, long hours, the crossword puzzle of insurance forms required to get paid – which...
View ArticleGetting in the way of a doctor’s calling – E. Goodman
By Ellen Goodman | June 19, 2009 THERE WILL BE time to talk about costs and coverage, about public and private plans, about reasoning and rationing in healthcare reform. So the president began this...
View ArticleGolfing with Updike
Boston Globe July 6, 2009 John and I met in 1979 at a writer’s party, shortly after my first novel came out. My impression was clouded by nervous awe, but luckily it was summer and our conversation...
View ArticleHe infuses mercy into practice of medicine
The Boston Globe – 12/8/2008 By Billy Baker – Globe Correspondent View Online Article Thirty years later, Dr. Stephen Bergman is comfortable shifting his posture back into appraisal position....
View ArticleThe farce of dueling psychiatrists
Boston Globe July 13, 2009 THE RECENT verdict of guilty in the “Clark Rockefeller’’ trial was an affirmation by a jury of his peers that he was not insane at the time of the crime. But the duel of...
View ArticleFive laws of the novelist
By Stephen Bergman | July 20, 2009 LIKE THE arcane process of film developing in a darkroom tray, several Laws of the Novelist have appeared, and are offered as a guide to those so inclined. Law...
View ArticleThe patient is the world
By Stephen Bergman | July 27, 2009 MEDICAL STUDENTS in their course on diagnosis are taught: “When you hear hoof beats outside the window don’t assume it’s a zebra.’’ This means that you should think...
View ArticleHe won’t open up? There’s a reason
By Stephen Bergman | August 3, 2009 A COUPLE sits on a beach on a brilliant July day. They’ve just had a picnic lunch, and are in that hazy sweet space of watching the waves and the gulls, the...
View ArticleWhat it’s like in a country without war
By Stephen Bergman | August 10, 2009 DATELINE: Tierra Tranquila, a house on a mountain above the Pacific in Costa Rica LAST NIGHT we sat out under the equatorial stars and listened to the sounds of...
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