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How Overdiagnosing Can Go Terribly Wrong

How Overdiagnosing Can Go Terribly Wrong

Marty Makary on the Industrializing of Health Care

By Marty Makary | September 20, 2019

How the Human Face of Medicine is Too Often Missing

How the Human Face of Medicine is Too Often Missing

Arthur Kleinman Locates Where Love Meets Health Care

By Arthur Kleinman | September 19, 2019

A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

Mike Magee on the Dark Side of the Medical Industrial Complex

By Mike Magee | September 5, 2019

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

The Social Transformation of American Medicine">Terrence Holt Revisits Paul Starr's Classic, The Social Transformation of American Medicine

By Terrence Holt | August 29, 2019

When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds">The Theranos Effect: <br When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds">

When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds">The Theranos Effect:
When Cutting-Edge Scientists Are Frauds

The Tragicomic Farce of Faking It in the Lab

By Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis | August 14, 2019

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

Despite Funding Successful Socialized Medicine Abroad, the United States Opted for Profit

By Mike Magee | July 12, 2019

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When the Eeriness of Trauma Can Only Be Understood Through Fiction

By Kate Hope Day | March 12, 2019

How Do You Talk to Your Patients About Death?

By Sunita Puri | March 12, 2019

What Mysteries and Medicine Have in Common

By Arnold van de Laar | October 19, 2018

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

My Disease is Not a Metaphor

Maggie Levantovskaya on Her Life with Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | October 2, 2018

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

From the Annals of Questionable Ideas in Medicine

By Mimi Swartz | August 3, 2018

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

Why I Became an Abortion Clinic Escort at 50

Why I Became an Abortion Clinic Escort at 50

Wendy Rawlings on Volunteering at the West Alabama Women's Center

By Wendy Rawlings | July 11, 2018

Science Brings Us Closer to the Miraculous

Science Brings Us Closer to the Miraculous

On Medicine, Magic, and Writing a Book About Both

By Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | June 26, 2018

How Psilocybin Could Be Used in Mental Health Treatment

How Psilocybin Could Be Used in Mental Health Treatment

Michael Pollan on the Lost History of Psychedelic Therapy

By Michael Pollan | May 15, 2018

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I'm Giving Up on Preventative Care

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I'm Giving Up on Preventative Care

How Contemporary American Medicine is Testing Us to Death

By Barbara Ehrenreich | April 9, 2018

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