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Last year, our series at Cornell University Press — The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work — published Frederick Barken’s excellent book about the frustrations of primary [...]

In her December 20th blogpost on WonkBlog, Sarah Kliff reports on a study from the Journal Surgery which documents that surgeons have left 4,857 objects in patients over the last […]

I have had the pleasure to edit sociologist Adam Reich’s excellent book With God on Our Side about the struggle for union representation at a Catholic hospital run by nuns […]

When I heard the news about the latest shooting of children in Connecticut, I was like so many others, appalled and outraged.  Echoing so many other reasonable people, I wonder […]

Yesterday I wrote about a conjugal culinary episode and its connection to patient safety.  What I left out was the fact that my husband and I — novice and expert […]

The other  evening, as we were having company for dinner, my husband burned the roasting pan. Completely and irremediably.  I was cooking a roast and asked him to keep an […]