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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...

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The 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...

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Getting 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...

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Golfing 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...

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He 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....

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The 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...

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Five 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...

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The 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...

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He 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...

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What 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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