Being Civil When Being Mortal Is Imminent
My review of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is available in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
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About Pathophilia
Faux Crystal Blue Persuasion on the Market
From The Onion‘s “TV Club” (no joke). Blue meth, made (er) popular by TV’s “Breaking Bad,” is on the rise. But the blue coloring of...
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Forbes’s “30 Under 30” Omits Hyped Teenager
Matthew Herper of Forbes performs a comprehensive and necessary critical examination of the work of “biotech whiz kid” Jack Andraka. The 16-year-old’s...
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Coach Summitt Prepares for Battle Against Unseen Opponent
A peculiar kind of living agony must be had by those who are diagnosed with psyche-robbing disorders, like Alzheimer’s disease, while they remain aware that...
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Bin Laden Succombs to Gunshot Wound, Not Renal Failure
It is difficult, if not impossible, to focus on any blog-relevant news in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, who died simply of this: a gunshot wound to the head...
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Top 10 for ’10: No. 9
No. 9: Sports-Related Concussions—No More Walking It Off Despite the fact that neurologist Ira Casson, former co-chairman of the NFL’s panel on brain injury,...
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