Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 58 years old and live in a rural area, about 100 miles from a regional hospital in the Southeast. I don’t want to identify the area [...]

Born in London on the last night of the Blitz, Karen Alkalay-Gut has been living and writing out in the open ever since. She was reared in Rochester, NY where [...]

Dear Dr. Pat,
I am 54 years old and want to have surgery to correct the droopy skin of my upper eyelids and the puffy bags of my lower eyelids. People [...]

In my office I deal with terrorists every day. Their weaponry is words. They don’t torture me but daily commit cruel verbal attacks on others.
“He won’t talk to me,” she [...]

In The Private Patient (Knopf  2008,  $25.95) P.D. James, who began her celebrated and prolific mystery writing career in her forties, has delivered an excellent Gothic tangle of a mystery. [...]

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Last night, President Obama called all three of the women we last mentioned as potential Supreme Court Justices and [...]

so much depends
 upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
So wrote the young aspiring poet William Carlos Williams in 1923. At his young age, how did he know?
At his age, [...]

Holding fast to a well-deserved and much-derided reputation as a lover of show tunes, I want to share a few minutes of the raw emotion, over-the top-show-biz and pure joy [...]

Nothing has changed in my consultation room since I began the practice of solo obstetrics and gynecology there in July, 1983. I was in my second year of private practice, [...]

The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edna St. Vincent Millay published her first book in 1917 — the year she graduated Vassar College and moved to Greenwich Village, [...]