June 23, 2020 To our Pulse community, For the next few days, Pulse will not be able to accept website submissions, comments or donations. This is so that Pulse can relocate to a beautiful new home on the Web. By the end of the week, you should be able to make your submission, post […]
This month’s More Voices theme is Abortion. For a long time, we’ve resisted posting this theme out of concern that it would generate more heat than light–more vitriol than compassion. But recent legislation that would make abortions illegal in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and now Louisiana has made us think that we need
An Editor’s Invitation: Abortion Read More »
If you are writing about a patient, his or her identity must be protected. Either you should obtainwritten consent to publish the piece or you must disguise a patient’s identity so that his or her friend or family member would not recognize the individual. In this case, the name must be changed. Other helpful changes might be:
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One Monday morning, a number of years ago, the administrators at the family health center where I used to work instituted a new and time-consuming procedure for registering patients. They did this in an attempt to satisfy the rules and requirements imposed by the many different insurance plans our center accepted. There was just one
The Story of Pulse Read More »
Every Friday, Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine publishes and distributes a first-person story or poem, together with a visual image or haiku, about health care. Launched in 2008, Pulse was created by members of the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with
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