Aliyah Baruchin

Conversations about end-of-life care are among the most important interactions doctors and patients have. But for health care providers of all ages, backgrounds, and specialties, they may also prove to be the most challenging. Decades after the rise…

A patient sits in a waiting room at Columbia’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, referred to Columbia based on reported symptoms and a recent blood test. His nascent chart includes his age, birthplace, current medications, profession,…

"My back hurts." For Mitchell Benson ’77, chair of urology at P&S, those three words are a touchstone. Twenty years ago, before the use of PSA screening for prostate cancer became routine, back pain was a common complaint of men walking in the door…

On a cold Sunday in February 1942, 50 doctors and 105 nurses from New York’s Presbyterian Hospital reported to Fort Meade, Md., to begin basic military training. At the request two years earlier of the Army Surgeon General, the group had assembled to…

On a cold Sunday in February 1942, 50 doctors and 105 nurses from New York’s Presbyterian Hospital reported to Fort Meade, Md., to begin basic military training. At the request two years earlier of the Army Surgeon General, the group had assembled to