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Healthcare policy/Medicine

New Study Finds Patients Regularly Mugged in the Dark

Posted on June 12, 2013 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

A while back I wrote about my experience being shaken down for over $4,000 when I had to take my daughter for a simple x-ray after she hurt her foot while we we...

Culture of Science/Medicine

Your genetic info — not free, easy, or clear

Posted on July 7, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This isn't something we'll figure out in a couple workshops; it's something the industry and the broader genomics community will need to consider carefully over...

Medicine

Gleaned: Suspicious women, sneaky cops, fair-minded children. Plus flu.

Posted on May 28, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What I distracted myself with this morning. Don't mix these at home.

Medicine

The Week’s Best: Evolution, healthcare reform, clever apes, and Cheever in his undies

Posted on March 26, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear

Medicine

Gleanings – mind & brain, law and war, media, bad trains

Posted on March 19, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Mind, brain, and body (including those gene things) While reading Wolpert's review of Greenberg's book, I found that the Guardian has a particularly rich trove ...

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The day’s gleanings

Posted on March 17, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Jerry Coyne relates that Birds are getting smaller. Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it When I talk to writing classes, someone will usual...

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Patty’s Day Roundup

Posted on March 17, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

BoingBoing loves The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs 2009, founded/published by the ever-present Bora Zivkovic and edited by scicurious. N...

Medicine

Notables from Out-n-About 03/17/2010 (a.m.)

Posted on March 16, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks

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From Out-N-About: latest web notables

Posted on March 15, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

We’ll start with the science, cruise through J school, and end with healthcare reform or bust. Genetic material Willful ignorance is not an effective argu...

Medicine

Vaccinating kids for flu protects almost everyone

Posted on March 11, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

"A landmark study looking at how to limit the spread of influenza has shown what experts have long believed but hadn't until now proved: Giving flu shots to kid...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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