by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID
I am posting again as Robin Schoenthaler the “cancer doc who is posting about Covid.” I don’t have time for a long post today because events are gathering speed. I am posting not out of panic, but out of my perspective as a physician who has access...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 9, 2020 | COVID
For now I am going to make myself the self-appointed translator of mis-information to facts about COVID-19. We are about to move into a catastrophic health care crisis and I will periodically post updates. This is not about blame, or controversies, or politics and...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | May 6, 2015 | New England Journal of Medicine
Originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine Everywhere I turned during my clerkships and in-ternship at a county hospital in southern California, I heard Spanish. My classmates and I came from places like Long Island and Kentucky and often had terrible...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Dec 13, 2014 | The Healing Muse
Originally published in The Healing Muse This is how it happens: I am picking through produce at the grocery store, late in the evening, and my cell phone screeches, so loudly that people look over and watch while I fumble to find it, and hush its ringing, and lift it...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Sep 29, 2014 | Third Space
Originally published in Third Space 1. The most common thing you will hear in the clinic is the sound of people laughing. 2. The second most common sound you will hear is computers. 3. You might think the carpet in front of the waiting room chairs would be worn down...
