Cancer

"The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.... A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research." -- Kirkus (starred review)

"A powerfully illuminating narrative of how things changed over the last century or so, both thorough and compelling." -- The Baffler

"The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.... A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research." -- Kirkus (starred review)

"An affecting and informative memoir about the lessons we can glean from life as well as death." -- Library Journal

Dr. Adam Stern, a psychiatrist at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joins us to discuss his memoir, a candid and engrossing reflection on his residency at Harvard.

Our guest is Dr. Adam Stern, a psychiatrist at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard…

Death is something very few of like to talk about, or even think about, but it's a fact of life, after all -- the final fact of life, you might say. What…

On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we discuss a work that takes a careful and long-overdue look at how caregiving and burnout so often go hand-in-hand…

On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we speak with Sunita Puri, author of "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour." Puri is an assistant…

The Cancer Treatment Center of America hospital in Tulsa announced Wednesday it will permanently close by June 1st. "Despite working tirelessly to…