
Can Doctors Ever Stop Being Doctors?
From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From Nunavut to Northern Ontario, a locum psychiatrist discovers what temporary medicine teaches about trust, belonging, and the limits of expertise.

Before Noah Kaufman became an ER doctor, he was a medical student being asked to act like one—from a dislocated shoulder in Mexico to a seizure in a movie theater.

Two simple words, “inhale” and “exhale,” open a larger exploration of language, breath, narrative medicine, and how physicians and patients make meaning.

ER physician and former American Ninja Warrior Noah Kaufman recalls free soloing Yosemite’s Royal Arches as a medical student.. and the moment his hand slipped more than 1,000 feet up.

An OB-GYN reflects on how rushed care and healthcare productivity pressures are affecting both physicians and patients, and what medicine risks losing along the way.

Dr. Noah Kaufman recalls the night a dislocated shoulder became a life-threatening emergency, forcing him to lie to a surgeon to save his patient.

Dr. Noah Kaufman recounts the brutal side of medical training, a confrontation with a surgeon, and the day he nearly quit medicine one month before finishing residency.

Noah Kaufman, MD, shares a wild ER night involving an unforgettable foreign-body case, a gunshot trauma, and a surreal American Ninja Warrior recognition.

A physician who lost his medical license reflects on his mistake, its devastating consequences, and his determination to practice again, raising difficult questions about accountability, rehabilitation, and second chances in medicine.

Dr. Noah Kaufman shares what it was really like practicing emergency medicine during COVID, when fear, death, uncertainty, and medicine collided.

What if one of healthcare’s biggest problems isn’t policy, but the way we divide the world into “us” and “them”? A physician reflects on identity, belonging, and what the World Cup teaches us about becoming “we.”

From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From Nunavut to Northern Ontario, a locum psychiatrist discovers what temporary medicine teaches about trust, belonging, and the limits of expertise.

Before Noah Kaufman became an ER doctor, he was a medical student being asked to act like one—from a dislocated shoulder in Mexico to a seizure in a movie theater.

Two simple words, “inhale” and “exhale,” open a larger exploration of language, breath, narrative medicine, and how physicians and patients make meaning.

ER physician and former American Ninja Warrior Noah Kaufman recalls free soloing Yosemite’s Royal Arches as a medical student.. and the moment his hand slipped more than 1,000 feet up.

An OB-GYN reflects on how rushed care and healthcare productivity pressures are affecting both physicians and patients, and what medicine risks losing along the way.

Dr. Noah Kaufman recalls the night a dislocated shoulder became a life-threatening emergency, forcing him to lie to a surgeon to save his patient.

Dr. Noah Kaufman recounts the brutal side of medical training, a confrontation with a surgeon, and the day he nearly quit medicine one month before finishing residency.

Noah Kaufman, MD, shares a wild ER night involving an unforgettable foreign-body case, a gunshot trauma, and a surreal American Ninja Warrior recognition.

A physician who lost his medical license reflects on his mistake, its devastating consequences, and his determination to practice again, raising difficult questions about accountability, rehabilitation, and second chances in medicine.

Dr. Noah Kaufman shares what it was really like practicing emergency medicine during COVID, when fear, death, uncertainty, and medicine collided.

What if one of healthcare’s biggest problems isn’t policy, but the way we divide the world into “us” and “them”? A physician reflects on identity, belonging, and what the World Cup teaches us about becoming “we.”

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