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Posted inEditor's Pick

When the Doctor Doesn’t Listen

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

“The medical establishment has a long history of ignoring patients with ‘unexplained’ symptoms. Long Covid might finally bring about a global attitude shift.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be at Home

by Seyward Darby January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

“In a time of strained capacity, the ‘hospital at home’ movement is figuring out how to create an inpatient level of care anywhere.”

Woman behind a curtain, looking out a window
Posted inFeature

Finding a Path in a Broken System

by Mailee Osten-Tan June 8, 2022October 18, 2022

Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.

Posted inEditor's Pick

To Study Zika, They Offered Their Kids. Then They Were Forgotten.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 11, 2021October 19, 2022

“Years after agreeing to take part in research, families of children with congenital Zika syndrome are feeling abandoned.”

Posted inNonfiction

Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo

by Shoshana Akabas October 6, 2021October 20, 2022

“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘No One Is Listening to Us’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 16, 2020October 19, 2022

“The most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn’t some miracle drug. It’s the expertise of its health-care workers—and they are exhausted.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Inking Against Invisibility

by Talia Hibbert January 24, 2020December 30, 2022

In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.

Posted inStory

Shared Breath

by Caitlin Dwyer July 25, 2019February 10, 2023

How does receiving a donated organ affect a person’s sense of self? Caitlin Dwyer explores the lives of organ donor recipients and their intimate relationships with donor families.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Maybe It’s Lyme: What Happens When Illness Becomes an Identity?

by Sari Botton July 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Molly Fischer dives deep into the growing culture of “chronic Lyme,” a sort of wild West where a proliferation of unconventional approaches to diagnosis and treatment contradict the medical establishment’s contention that, despite some possible lasting symptoms, Lyme is not chronic; and where sufferers find identity and community.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Robert Gatenby, a radiologist in Tampa, Florida, is rethinking cancer as a chronic illness: studying the link between cancer and Darwin’s principles and finding a way to “outsmart it rather than carpet-bomb it.”

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