Politics & Policy
August 9, 2023
Where Do Texas Abortion Laws Stand Now?
A state district court judge narrowed Texas’s abortion ban, but the state’s appeal complicates access to the procedure.
Doctors
Sports
May 5, 2023
Meet the North Texas Maestro of Tommy John Surgery
Keith Meister, a team physician for the Texas Rangers, has reconstructed the elbows of many of the best players in baseball.
Health
February 24, 2023
Why Doctors Aren’t Taught Much About Nutrition
A UT Southwestern program highlights how physicians can and should be better trained to discuss healthy eating with their patients.
Health
December 15, 2022
Texas’s Doctor Shortage Is Bilingual
There aren’t nearly enough physicians in the state, especially for the more than 7.5 million Texans who primarily speak Spanish.
Politics & Policy
April 3, 2020
Greg Abbott Promised to Get Masks for Texas. Many Doctors Say They Are Still Facing Shortages.
Family care physicians say they still don’t have enough personal protective equipment. So they’re seeking other solutions.
Books
February 22, 2019
‘Letters From the Pit’ Tells Tales From an Austin ER With Humor and Empathy
In his new memoir, the former chief of emergency medicine at Brackenridge Hospital recounts stories that are by turns tragic, triumphant, and NSFW.
Health
January 20, 2013
State of the Heart
Bypass surgery with almost no pain, and you get to go home three days later? Don’t have a coronary: It’s happening right now, in Texas.
Books
May 31, 1997
The Doctor Is In
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
Health
January 1, 1997
So Much to Learn, So Little Time
Today students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are expected to master more hard-core science than ever before. Yet after graduation, they’ll have to keep studying, and be counselors and business experts too. A hard look at the way we teach our doctors—and why it has had to change.
Health
January 1, 1996
Smooth Operator
You might say Tarek Souryal is the most important Dallas Maverick: He doesn’t score or rebound, but he reconstructs million-dollar ankles and knees, and that makes him a real team player.
Business
August 6, 1995
Silicone City
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.
Health
March 1, 1995
Not What the Doctor Ordered
How an old-fashioned Texas physician fought the takeover of modern medicine by heartless insurance companies—and lost.
True Crime
July 31, 1991
The Afrin Affair
A tale of rivalry, intrigue, and foul play in the science lab.
Health
December 1, 1987
This Can’t Be Happening to Me
From the look on my doctor’s face, I knew the results of the biopsy. The lump in my breast was cancer.
Health
January 1, 1980
The Baby Factory
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Health
April 1, 1979
What They Do All Day
Doctors are busy every minute. But what exactly are they up to ?
Health
April 1, 1979
Super Medicine
At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.
Health
April 1, 1977
The Lifesavers
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
Health
March 1, 1977
Oops!
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
Health
June 1, 1976
Physician, Heal Thyself
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Health
February 1, 1975
Sirens in the Night
Great ambulance drivers are made, not born.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 1974
Abortion in Texas
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
Health
January 1, 1974
Living Off the Fat of the Land
Shaping up and shelling out at Texas Health Spas.
Health
April 30, 1973
Marcus Welby is an Establishment Quack!
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.