Articles Tagged with #medicine
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Video
On Memory
People diagnosed with Alzheimer’s recount memories they never want to forget.
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The Medicine Cabinet
The Loss
To understand everything wrong about health care in America today, look to a horrifying trend in amputation.
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Dimensions in Medicine
Anything but Nothing
After a lifetime of mental illness, one woman opts to try electroconvulsive therapy. She discusses her decision with her sister.
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Dimensions in Medicine
My Letter From Oliver Sacks
Migraines, 3D magic, and an unlikely correspondence from one “incredibly stereoscopic person” to another.
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The Doctor Is In
Fight or Flight
A near-death experience makes this week’s International Asteroid Day a little more tricky to celebrate.
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New York, New York
New York Fashion Week at My House
A visit to the New York studio/living room of a family’s style director who has a week’s worth of laundry ahead of her.
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Close Reads
It Made Me Feel Like More Than One Person
You can learn how to read a poem, but you can’t choose how it will affect you. Here, a little cough launches a journey through a reader’s mind.
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Health Concerns
Junglecare
In search of a remedy for MS, a journey out of the gridlock of America’s health system and into the jungles of Belize, where medicine men promise cures for everything that ails you.
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Family Histories
The Influencing Machine
When a genetic disease looms, we’re more like our parents than we’d like to believe—and when we become parents, that fear only grows.
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Surrealpolitik
An Unthinkably Modern Miracle
In today’s health care system, medicine often comes with a strange, Faustian bargain—including a plan for almost everything except the price.
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The Unexpected
After Birth
A home birth begets a crash course in DIY medical waste disposal.
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Gallery
Human Interest Story
Luminous portraits taken by a pediatrician-photographer, of people considered to be outside beauty’s dominant ideal.