Perspectives
Revolution and Revelation
Milton Packer shares personal essays on the nobility and foolishness of the human experience, as it relates to medicine and life.
- Ask the Program Director
- Building the Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Calamities, Codes, and Crises
- Climate Checkup
- Faust Files
- Focus on Policy
- Happy Healer
- KevinMD
- Of Parasites and Plagues
- Prescriptions for a Broken System
- Rural Rx
- Second Opinions
- Suicidologist's Soliloquy
- The Health Docket
- The Toxicology Report
- Uncharted Territory
- What We Heard This Week
- Wired Practice
Milton Packer imagines what humans can become when we decide to fly
Milton Packer considers the origins of pain, both scientifically and emotionally
Milton Packer describes the first and only successful U.S. housestaff strike -- in 1975
Milton Packer wonders where our guidance on medical ethics should come from
According to Milton Packer, the Western healthcare industry needs to find its moral compass
According to Milton Packer, it is self-confidence -- not age -- that really matters
Milton Packer explores the innumerable reasons why laughter is essential to medicine
Milton Packer decides to set his planned essay aside and write from the heart
Milton Packer is amazed to learn what monetizing followers can do for writers
It's time for a history lesson in the roots of vaccine advocacy and resistance
Milton Packer wonders why physicians are struggling to get their priorities straight
Milton Packer recalls when he was asked to prove his worthiness
Milton Packer explains what we can do today to mitigate the spread of COVID-19
Milton Packer describes the impossible task of vetting medical research
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