YouTube video by UMKC School of Medicine

“We stood silently facing each other in the hospital corridor, until I heard the little boy’s Tonka truck clank to the floor.”

As you lay dying in hospice, my father was sick in a hospital. Your prognosis was absolute. My father's diagnosis was elusive, his outcome uncertain. You both spoke to each other daily. Facetime, tele...

As she cares for a newborn who’s struggling to breathe, a neonatologist contemplates how politics and power structures affect the availability of critical perinatal services in the United States.

When November's announcement by the CDC that our infant mortality rate remains abysmal did not make even the tiniest of dents in the post-election news cycle, my thoughts pivoted from the patient’s I’...

YouTube video by TEDx Talks