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“The dying don’t worry about detail.” That’s a stunner of an insight from Dr. Nina O’Connor, a palli ...

Doctors deal with enormous stress working every day with life and death. How can they balance the priority of the patient with their own ...

No matter what your approach to the holidays is, I’ll bet it includes some theme of light or warmth — a festival of lights or a s ...

Christmas decorations and holiday music bombard us right after Halloween. For Christians, it seems the holiday had become overly commerci ...

Medical jobs can be interpersonally intense, including major decisions about someone else’s life — and death. Penn’s D ...

I have been thinking more about the time and space in which we nourish ourselves as humans on the job, which brought to mind two ideas: f ...

Desire is a natural part of life, but what happens when desire becomes an insatiable craving? Whether it is drugs, alcohol, too much foo ...

A recent article in the New York Times Magazine helped me feel vindicated in sticking with my zone-out time. Writer Melissa ...

The work/life balance is one of the first things that comes to most people’s minds when I ask them how they can be ‘human at ...

An interview with Leadership Philadelphia CEO Liz Dow reveals a surprising truth about work and meaning for business leaders. “I’ ...

The holiday season is here… and while it is filled with gift-giving, it’s also a good time to talk about opportunities to mak ...

Six months before the primary election, the field of candidates for Philadelphia mayor became more clearly defined Wednesday with announc ...

It doesn’t get more Philadelphia than the scene at the Franklin Institute at high noon Wednesday as Lynne Abraham, the former distr ...

It’s official.  Pope Francis is coming to town in September for the World Meeting of Families. His visit to Philadelp ...

As Gov. Chris Christie and local and state officials gather in Atlantic City today to discuss the struggling community’s future, th ...