Palliative care takes a whole-person approach to address suffering among patients living with
serious illness. Traditionally, a great deal of attention has been paid to physical symptoms, …

Background Telepsychiatry is now common practice. Within consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP),
previous work has shown that telepsychiatry is feasible and satisfactory. To date, there …

… Christopher Magoon … Magoon is a second-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry,
Columbia University, New York, and the guest editor of this issue of the Residents' Journal. …

The article discusses the television programs and films that tackled mental illnesses and the
mental health care systems. In the film" The Father," the main character played by actor …

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in West
Africa to be the “most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times”[1]. Individuals …

… Christopher Magoon3 Kang Mengtian1 Lexi Wang3 Mayinuer Yusufu3 Tai Stephan3 Dr
Wang Decai4 Dr Peter Xu3 Dr Wen Qing2 Dr Tang Jianjun2 Prof Ciarin O’Neill2 Prof …

Background The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to
be the “most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times”[1]. Individuals infected …

Recently, I have been frustrated by my inability to capitalize on the solitude of quarantined
life. Alone in my apartment, I sit down to work on something—really anything—productive and …

It’s well known that the best lunch near the VA hospital is a made-to-order sandwich at the
corner store. While rotating there I would walk there on my lunch breaks, basking in the …

We were an eclectic bunch. Among others, my lunch table included an ecologist analyzing
panda feces, a choral conductor transcribing Buddhist chants, and a social worker studying …