My wife tells me we are the “Sandwich Generation,” caring for our parents and our children. Abby is a geriatrician; she would know. Abby is often up at 4 a.m. worrying about the state of the world. I sleep like a brick knowing the world has always been mostly terrible…

I was talking to a psychiatry residency classmate over a year ago, when we thought herd immunity would have to happen, given how long a vaccine would take. “We’re all getting covid,” he said, and we laughed the uneasy laugh of knowing we were going to practice medicine anyway —…

Tiny Analog Christmas Could Harry Potter have been anything but British? It’s a rhetorical question. No! “The Great American Baking Show” will never be “The Great British Baking Show,” just as Renée Zellweger, Dick Van Dyke, and Don Cheadle ruined movies that demanded an English native. Americans didn’t invent but…