Health
Why I Keep Quiet About Being a Cancer Doctor
If I lie or change the subject when you ask me what I do for a living, please don't be offended.
Getting Googled by Your Doctor
Will mental health clinicians become liable for missing your latest Facebook post?
How My Cancer Patient’s Scary Father Emotionally Scarred Me
It may be impossible to make people happy when you have to say or recommend things they do not want to hear.
The Kafkaesque Process of Cancer Diagnosis
Why reading Kafka’s “The Trial” might comfort patients and enrich the work of oncologists.
This Man’s Immune System Got a Cancer-killing Update
William Ludwig was almost dead when he became Patient Number One in a radical new cancer treatment, one that’s just won the endorsement of F.D.A. advisors.
Ingenious: Jack Gilbert
The professor of surgery explains how health emerges from a healthy microbiome.