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Doctor Yenta

GlassHospital has been featured in a publication produced down the road at FancyHospital. I’m delighted to share with you the recently published issue No. 8 of Atrium, available free for download by clicking on the link here. Many readers know of my ‘wisdom’ project in which I brought together a retired biochemist and a retired [...]

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Doc, How Long Have I Got? [UPDATED]

[Editor's note: I've truncated this post because it was picked up by Slate for their Medical Examiner column. Check it out over there & feel free to comment there and here! -GH] A year ago, U.K. officials released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi to Libya on humanitarian grounds, based on a prediction that he [...]

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Medical GPS

I’ve been thinking about writing a book called “Medical GPS.” Tell me if it makes any sense: There are dozens and dozens of medical self-help books out there, telling us how to eat, how to exercise, how to beat this or that disease. But what about a primer to the medical system? How do we [...]

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