Anatomy student Savannah Winters, 20, of Livermore, never imagined that one of her most influential teachers might be a 96-year-old Alzheimer”s patient — a man she met after his death. Winters and her ...

The class began playfully enough, with instructor Jennifer Hellier kneading a ball of light brown clay and rolling it between the palms of her hands. But then, as she and four college students ...

A couple of years back, my neurosurgeon showed me some snaps she'd made on her flip phone of my open forearm during a surgery she had performed on me. She offered me the pictures as evidence that her ...

Clinical medicine hasn’t always been as, well, clinical as it is now — visions of Rembrandt’s operating theater–as– social hall come to mind. Just take a look at the adorable woodcuts of ...