Taking embarrassment seriously
A few weeks ago, I fell and skinned my knee. In public. It was in New York, the sidewalk crowded with people. I immediately felt… Read More »Taking embarrassment seriously
Gigi Meikle
Finding Needles in Invisible Haystacks
“When asked about snakebite statistics in Brazil, scientist Maurício Rocha e Silva once said there were none,” Deirdre Mask writes in her 2020 book The… Read More »Finding Needles in Invisible Haystacks
A Pandemic’s Burden on the Most Vulnerable
“Covid-19 is potentially catastrophic for millions who are already hanging by a thread,” was the blunt assessment by the chief economist of the World Food… Read More »A Pandemic’s Burden on the Most Vulnerable
Dispatch from V7V
ABOUT HALFWAY DOWN the page, on a decade-old version of Operation Fistula’s patient pre-op forms, there are two standard questions the admitting nurse would pose,… Read More »Dispatch from V7V
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