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| Café Archive |
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| Random Sample |
| 8/8/01 |
The Horror, the Horror! Ape hearts, brain transplants, and death serum: how the movies? ghoulish doctors cure what ails, by Samuel Uretsky, PharmD |
| 7/11/01 |
Catwalk to Catheter Les scrubs, c'est chic!--a sneak peek at the what the runways have in store for fashionista MDs, by The Staff of Modern Humorist |
| 6/13/01 |
Quacks Like Us Step right up! Medical scams are more than snake oil and strychnine, by Samuel Uretsky, PharmD |
| 5/16/01 |
Senses Working Overtime Neurologists take a louder, sweeter look at synesthesia's psychedelic distortions, by Charles Downey |
| 4/4/01 |
Doctor No Licensed to what? Phony doc scam exposed, by The Staff of Modern Humorist |
| 3/21/01 |
Altered States An internist wakes comatose patients with squirt guns, beer, and a unicycle, by Charles Downey |
| 3/7/01 |
CAT Food From check-out scan to CAT scan: radiology hits the produce aisles, by Modern Humorist |
| 2/21/01 |
Orgone and Spectrochrome The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices has surprises in store for the visitor, by Laura Buchholz |
| 2/7/01 |
Say a Little Prayer These specialists answer to a higher authority, by Samuel Uretsky, PharmD |
| 1/24/01 |
Dr. Megahead, Report to Neurosurgery What's in a name? For some doctors, destiny, by Laura Buchholz |
| 12/13/00 |
Better Luck Next Year A prize honors research that should never be reproduced, by Zachary Levin |
| 11/29/00 |
E.T. Clone Home A cloned utopia? Clonaid reaches for eternal life through genetic research, by Anna Van Lenten |
| 10/4/00 |
Walter Winchell's War on Cancer A bad guy of tabloid mayhem becomes the first cancer philanthropist, by Jane Salodof MacNeil |
| 9/6/00 |
Armchair Quarterbacking a Bacterial Scrimmage Spend an evening at the theater with 60-foot mosquitoes, by Cynthia Mines |
| 6/20/00 |
The Business End of a Microscope For pathologists, half a million isn't too much take-home pay for forestalling the extinction of the species, by David Krasnow |
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| Williams' Corner |
| 8/8/01 |
Poet David Watts, MD, ponders the erotic amnesia with which he protects a patient's intimacy |
| 7/25/01 |
Even in the pain of crippling arthritis, poet Josephine Miles practiced the discipline of hospitality |
| 6/13/01 |
Poet Rafael Campo, MD, wonders about the taboos we break when we analyze the body's mechanics |
| 5/16/01 |
Robert Frost searches frantically for the meaning in a boy's fatal accident |
| 5/2/01 |
Death is a matter of perspective, says a Nobel Prize-winning poet |
| 4/18/01 |
A poem by Daniel Moran captures medical research smiling for the camera |
| 4/4/01 |
There's nothing honorable in a soldier's death by poisoning, poet Wilfred Owen writes |
| 3/7/01 |
Poet David Watts on the seduction of a needle under the skin |
| 2/21/01 |
In the clinic bathroom, a poet spins urine into gold |
| 2/7/01 |
Emily Dickinson can't locate what ails her: brain, mind, or soul? |
| 1/24/01 |
A bruiser is brought down while his spirit mends in a poem of Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| 1/10/01 |
Poet Marie Howe brought her brother back to life |
| 12/13/00 |
Elizabeth Bishop learns suffering in the waiting room |
| 11/29/00 |
Drugs, sex, and death in Shakespeare's natural pharmacy |
| 11/1/00 |
Poet Virginia Hamilton Adair on hysterectomy and fishing |
| 10/18/00 |
Robert Frost enacts a tragedy as death catalyzes the burial of a marital bond |
| 10/4/00 |
Bonnie St. Andrews is resurrected from a near-death encounter with asphalt |
| 9/20/00 |
Death is the mother of glory: Wallace Stevens satirizes a funeral |
| 9/6/00 |
How poet Tory Dent's body, mind, and soul intersect with quarantine during AIDS treatment |
| 8/23/00 |
Walt Whitman on the ghastly healing of war and amputation |
| 7/26/00 |
Samuel Johnson's elegy for doctor for whom |
| 6/28/00 |
Poet/physician William Carlos Williams on death and renewal |
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| Reviews and Excerpts |
| 8/8/01 |
In a new book of short stories, Perri Klass writes of love and life from both sides of the stethoscope, reviewed by Teresa L. Schraeder, MD |
| 8/8/01 |
A new book examines the long history of amnesia in military psychiatry, reviewed by Christopher Scanlan |
| 7/25/01 |
Lying in wait for a killer: pregnant women had every reason to dread the obstetrician, reviewed by Philip K. Wilson |
| 6/27/01 |
In William Bonadio's memoir, the saintly innocence of a pediatric ER doesn't quite wash, reviewed by Katherine Uraneck, MD |
| 6/13/01 |
A new book tells how thalidomide, the ultimate medical horror story, is coming back as a miracle drug, reviewed by Rod Quilitz, Pharm D, BCOP |
| 6/13/01 |
Get a load of musicians who use liposuction, skulls, and acupuncture needles to shake your groove thing, reviewed by David Krasnow |
| 5/30/01 |
Medical smackdown! From handwashing to HIV, a new book brings readers to the ring, reviewed by Emily Laber |
| 5/16/01 |
Diagnosing by horoscope, an impostor physician runs afoul of the Renaissance medical establishment, reviewed by Julie Robin Solomon, PhD |
| 5/2/01 |
A German-Jewish atomic physicist lost the Nobel, but gains new life in a novel about a scientist with Parkinson's, reviewed by E.J. Kessler |
| 4/18/01 |
House calls, homeopathy, and happy pills: American medical history on display on Staten Island, reviewed by Howard Markel |
| 4/4/01 |
American medicine gets a thorough workup from George Lundberg, MD, former editor of JAMA and now editor in chief of Medscape, reviewed by Frank Davidoff |
| 4/4/01 |
Is HBO's Wit another film about nice women patients and mean male doctors?, reviewed by Stacy Boyd |
| 4/4/01 |
A grotesque murder unmasks a respectable French doctor and family man, reviewed by Kurt Eichenwald |
| 3/21/01 |
Hitler for health: medicine meets the totalitarian state in the war against cancer, reviewed by Stephen S. Lefrak, MD |
| 3/21/01 |
The cold, compulsive oedipal murderer unmasked in a new biography of Sigmund Freud, reviewed by Gerald Schoenewolf, PhD |
| 3/7/01 |
It's addictive, psychoactive, and your kids are doing it: no worries, says a book on caffeine, reviewed by Emily Laber |
| 3/7/01 |
Sherwin Nuland finds Leonardo, the visionary anatomist, beating Vesalius to the punch, reviewed by Howard Markel, MD, PhD |
| 2/21/01 |
Must women in medicine still choose between sympathy and science?, reviewed by Edward Morman |
| 2/7/01 |
No disease, no crime, no poverty: paradise comes with indoor plumbing, reviewed by Howard Markel |
| 2/7/01 |
The fountain of youth dried up decades ago, and there's no refill, say two biodemographers, reviewed by Rebecca Skloot |
| 1/24/01 |
Can humans survive on thrills alone? Our reviewer considers Ashcroft's Life at the Extremes, reviewed by Emily Laber |
| 1/10/01 |
Sylvia Plath thought art and suffering were one; was she wrong?, reviewed by Gerald Schoenewolf |
| 1/10/01 |
What's so shocking about medical imagery? A surgical demonstrator investigates, reviewed by Pritpal S. Tamber |
| 12/13/00 |
In The Case for Marriage, singles learn that it doesn't pay to be picky, reviewed by Scott Gottlieb |
| 11/29/00 |
In his new book of poems, John Ashbery revels in the unsifted backtape of the mind, reviewed by Gillie Bolton |
| 11/29/00 |
Robert Altman's film about a gynecologist delivers a bundle of stereotypes, reviewed by Martin Winckler |
| 11/15/00 |
Artist Damien Hirst looks to the absolute suppression of pain, reviewed by Sally Kuzma |
| 10/18/00 |
Public health has gone to hell in a hand basket, according to Laurie Garrett's Betrayal of Trust, reviewed by Jack Woodall |
| 10/18/00 |
ABC's Gideon's Crossing is a doctor drama without the medicine, reviewed by Lester D. Friedman |
| 10/4/00 |
Richard Schweid explores the horrific appeal of the cockroach in The Cockroach Papers, reviewed by David Krasnow |
| 9/20/00 |
Clifford Pickover takes on a monstrous medical mystery in The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, reviewed by Harry Ostrer, MD |
| 8/23/00 |
Pamela Grim's Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives displays her ER's daily heroism in grisly detail, reviewed by Jenny Walser, MD |
| 8/9/00 |
Tom Kirkwood's Time of Our Lives lays the death gene to rest, reviewed by Marvin Ackerman |
| 7/26/00 |
A novel and a scholarly tome agree: normal and abnormal are peas in a pod, reviewed by Jill Neimark |
| 7/12/00 |
From leeches to sheep's liver, getting sick has never been fun, reviewed by Emily Laber |
| 6/26/00 |
The price of life according to Peter A. Ubel, reviewed by Emily Laber |
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| Essay |
| 1/10/01 |
Soothing the Soul Since Hippocrates, melody and rhythm have been recommended as a cure for what ails |
| 12/13/00 |
Dr. Chekhov's Prescription Anton Chekhov assembled a rogues gallery of physicians from personal experience |
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| Art Gallery |
| 7/20/01 |
Diagnostic Animation Medical metaphors inform the surreal transformations of William Kentridge?s animated films |
| 3/21/01 |
Inner Beauty A portraitist reveals the inner beauty of his subjects using x-rays and MRIs |
| 2/7/01 |
Remains to Be Seen An artist sculpts the piles of pills that keep him healthy |
| 12/13/00 |
Material Girl Jess von der Ahe paints from within, literally |
| 11/1/00 |
Facing Illness An artist in residence works the cancer ward |
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| Healing Words, by James Barbeau and Judith Barbeau |
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| The Hobbyist |
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| Fiction |
| 3/7/01 |
The Needle In an Army hospital, a syringe of sodium pentothal unlocks the demons plaguing a B-17 gunner |
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