Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last year’s Dragon yang. That said, Snake does not settle for ...

Each member, with their unique expertise and diversity, strengthened the team, leading to better outcomes. The anesthesiologist monitored the patient's vitals, adjusting anesthesia levels with ...

In his essay “Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes: “Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but ...

We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political administration, questions have arisen over whether the US should cease ...

Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009. The chain of events that began on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and culminate on the steps of the Capitol in Washington this week took more ...

After a decade of moving between the Bay Area, the Midwest, and Mexico, in August of last year, I finally moved back to the lively Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. It has been special coming ...

We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political... [Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2004.] A critically ill ...

In the quiet uncertainty of an emergency department, a woman in gut-wrenching pain arrives, unable to catch a breath. Within a matter of minutes, Dr. Sally Graglia completes a point-of-care ultrasound ...

Originally published in Synapse on January 12, 2006. Last month, the nations of the world gathered in Montreal to try to do something about the growing threat from global warming. At least, most of ...