Published online at Scientific American on July 15, 2019. It’s four o’clock on a roasting Wednesday last July. I am a resident physician at Yale…
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Published May 8, 2019 on Scientific American. It’s 3 P.M. on a Saturday in March, and I’m working at Silver Hill Hospital. As the on-duty…
It’s 7:30 A.M. on a frosty Wednesday in December. I’m waiting impatiently in the lobby of the Anlyan Center, a large research building at Yale…
Published at Scientific American on October 11, 2018. Lisa Barlow, whose name I have changed to protect her privacy, is at her kitchen table in…
Published online at Scientific American on August 13, 2018. At the beginning graduate school, I decided I wanted to study how epileptic seizures damage the…
Published on scientificamerican.com on May 15, 2018. We use the term “normal” so casually and so often that it seems utterly…normal. But in a compelling Trends…
When you go free diving, physical strength is not enough
Published online at Scientific American on March 19, 2018. It was midday when an ambulance brought Rose to the Emergency Department. The triage nurses, with…
Published online at scientificamerican.com on February 20, 2018. Think about your friends—the people you spend a lot of time with, see movies with, those people…
Published online at scientificamerican.com on February 6, 2018. When my son was born a few months ago, he quickly established himself as the tyrant of …
