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Home » doctors

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Should I social distance from my casual lover?

by Dan Savage March 26, 2020August 18, 2021

Advice on whether to hook up with an ER doctor during a pandemic.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘You just hope they can fight it off on their own’

by Chicago Reader March 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Interviews with a doctor and nurse as Chicago hospitals brace for a deluge of novel coronavirus patients.

Posted inBlogs

Has anyone ever gone into journalism for the prestige?

by Michael Miner September 12, 2014August 18, 2021

As usual, the Harris Poll ranks journalists low in prestige

Dr. Quentin Young, a longtime civil rights activist, addresses Jesse Jackson and Operation PUSH in 1975.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in

by Ben Joravsky October 15, 2013August 19, 2021

A new film project tries to capture the life of physician and activist Quentin Young.

Posted inBlogs

The power of negative thinking

by Steve Bogira December 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Warning: the enclosed drug warnings may make you sick.

Posted inBlogs

Your placebo drug information

by Steve Bogira December 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Take two Pretendia and feel as well as you can imagine.

Posted inReader

The Island of Misfit Dates

by Heartbroker December 20, 2010August 19, 2021

Sticking to my resolution this year, reminded again where yellow snow comes from, and the most obvious thing not to do in front of your date.

Posted inBlogs

Three Out Of Four Doctors

by Cliff Doerksen October 7, 2010August 19, 2021

Physicians, heel thyselves.

Posted inBlogs

Geek Chic

by Cliff Doerksen July 22, 2010August 19, 2021

You had to have a screw loose to work as a geek

Posted inBlogs

Evil laughter is the best medicine

by Cliff Doerksen January 4, 2010August 19, 2021

Nineteenth-century medical students shared an earthy sense of humor

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