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This is an insightful first-person account of the shifting role of an English doctor. The comparison offered — 30 years apart — tells a powerful story.  Today, unlike 30 years ago, all patients are strangers and, as my catchment area now extends into different London boroughs, even the places I go are unfamiliar. Gone is […]

This is a thought-provoking essay that examines how the rules about what could — and could not — be talked about in public, began to change. When did we first start to openly discuss what makes us who we are? Surely the book was too personal, Gunther’s publisher, Harper & Brothers, objected. Who would want […]

Aviva Coopersmith delivers a candid first-hand account on uncovering the harrowing truth behind her conception at the hands of an unscrupulous fertility doctor. The rest of the class-action plaintiffs are former patients: women like my mom who never consented to being inseminated with the sperm used to impregnate them; fathers like Rebecca’s, who have had […]