Match Day, when graduating medical students find out where they will spend their residencies, always brings surprises and tears of joy. ...more

March 20, 2009

Match Day, when graduating medical students find out where they will spend their residencies, always brings surprises and tears of joy. ...more

March 19, 2009

Have you seen them? They used to be among us. They used to be in your neighborhoods. ...more

September 17, 2008

Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who have been the backbone of the American medical system. ...more

September 10, 2008

Transplant surgeon Clive Callender has hurtful memories of being the only black doctor at medical meetings in the 1970s, met with stark silence when he pleaded for better access to transplant organs for blacks. ...more

July 11, 2008

Training Will Fall Short Regarding "Physician Shortage Is Concerning" (Our Opinion, Nov. 11): ...more

November 17, 2007

Some Bay area people who lack medical insurance and don't know how they'll be able to afford health care can cross that bridge when they come to it. ...more

October 4, 2007

Sylvia Martinez had been told before she had high blood pressure. But the 47-year-old had never taken medicine for it until about three weeks ago, when aspiring doctors and their supervising physicians convinced her she needed it. ...more

October 4, 2007

The BRIDGE, an acronym derived from Building Relationships and Initiatives Dedicated to Gaining Equality, operates Tuesday evenings at the University Area Community Health Center, a county-run facility on North 22nd Street in the low-income community west of the university. ...more

October 3, 2007