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The Making of a Surgeon

It’s 8:20 on a Friday morning, and surgical resident Jennifer LaFemina, MD, is in Massachusetts General Hospital’s operating room number 10, alongside attending thoracic surgeon, Henning Gaissert, MD,...

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As Star in the Lonestar State

Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, was serving as director of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) when he received a phone call from a member of the...

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Prepping for Modern Medicine

Brian Nahed, MD, and Eric Chang, MD, aspire to spend their careers operating on patients at home and abroad, and wanted to help train neurosurgeons in the developing world who often perform the...

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Tracing the Arc of History

The new Paul S. Russell, MD, Museum of Medical History and Innovation is scheduled to open later this year but there is no end in sight to efforts to track down artifacts that can help tell the...

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MGH: A Mission to Educate

The famed 1810 circular letter signed by Boston physicians James Jackson, MD, and John C. Warren, MD, said that, in addition to providing for the immediate needs of the sick and injured, the hospital...

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The Many Flavors of Primary Care at Mass General

At a time of soaring nationwide demand for primary care physicians, Massachusetts General Hospital is trying to train new ones and hold onto veterans like Will Schmitt, MD. If a patient is too sick to...

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Primary Inspiration

There is nothing remarkable about suite 605 in the Wang Building at Massachusetts General Hospital. Located at the end of a long hallway, its glass door opens to Internal Medicine Associates (IMA), the...

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Seeds of Empathy

Mass General is in the vanguard of efforts to keep compassion and empathy alive in daily practice. Its pioneering Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare engages clinicians in helping each other...

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