“What happened with hydroxychloroquine was a debacle, but retelling the story might help avert the same kind of chaos next time around.”
Search results
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Their Bodies Are Not Considered Their Own’: White Privilege in the Emergency Room
It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.
Posted inQuotes
Is the Cure for Cancer Locked in Shrunken Heads from the Amazon?
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?
Posted inFeature
My Unlikely Existence
Is AI helping prospective parents game the fertility lottery? Should it?
Posted inFeature
Insatiable: A Life Without Eating
When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will
On racism in medicine, body autonomy, and one Black doctor’s experience in the ER.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Aviv, Clare Gerada, Fatima Syed, Leslie Jamison, and Deb Olin Unferth.
Posted inNonfiction
The Criminalization of the American Midwife
New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Rabbit Outbreak
“As RHDV2 is poised to become endemic in the United States, the vaccine, which is the one thing that might stop it, is now caught up in the contradictions of rabbits.” The latest New Yorker feature from Susan Orlean tracks a highly contagious, deadly virus among rabbits.
Posted inFeature
The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
