Suzanne Koven MD, MFA

Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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The Boston Globe | In Practice

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“Preparing for Ebola, Remembering AIDS”

“Suicide Prevention in Primary Care”

“Normal Worry, or Hypochondria?”

“Farewell to the Routine Pelvic Exam?”

“When it Comes to Obesity Treatment, One Size Does Not Fit All”

“Is Physician Burnout Really a Problem?”

“Illness and Silver Linings”

“A Message From A Dying Patient”

“Doctors, Patients, and Computer Screens”

“Navigating Changes in Medical Guidelines”

“My Patients’ Top 5 Health Tips”

“Thanks to Advances in Medicine, Life Goes On”

“Doctors Writing About Patients: A Consultation With Oliver Sacks”

“When Patients Choose Alternative Medicine”

“Remembering Internship, Revisiting ‘The House of God'”

“Intuition Led to a Diagnosis of Lyme Disease”

”When Someone is No Longer Safe At Home”

“Patients Healing Patients”

“Why Patients Don’t Always Follow Doctor’s Orders”

“Actors Help Doctors Learn to Convey Empathy”

“Why Does Caring For Elderly Parents Sometimes Make Us Feel Guilty?”

“Patients, Doctors, and God”

“The Doctor-Patient Divorce”

“A Doctor Walks Into A Room…”

“The Difference Between Doctors and Nurses”

“When An Adult Child Is Ill”

“For Physicians and Patients, Time Is The Best Medicine”

“A Willing But Anxious Good Samaritan”

“Marriage Equality, In Sickness and In Health”

“Memoirs of a Slightly Overweight Diet Doctor”

“A Doctor Without Borders”

“Families of Patients Need Some Attention Too”

“‘The Hateful Patient’ Revisited”

“Menopause: How The Change Has Changed”

“Rethinking Willpower”

“The Relationship Between Grief and Depression”

“Doctors and Painkillers”

“Who Knows Your Body Best?”

“Blurred Boundaries Between Doctor and Patient”

“Part-Time Doctors, Full-Time Patients”

“Doctors, Patients and the Secrets They Share”

“A (Good) Death Panel”

“The Patient Isn’t the Only One With A History”

“When Obesity is Given Too Much Weight in a Diagnosis”

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