Best New Yorker Annals of Medicine
Annals of Medicine examines healthcare, medical science, and the human experience of illness. These pieces bring narrative power to medical journalism.
14 picks · 1948–2020
Top authors: Atul Gawande (7), Berton Roueché (4), Jerome Groopman (1)
Atul Gawande on the promise of digitization to make medical care easier and more efficient, and whether screens may be coming between doctors and patients.
We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.
After undergoing controversial surgery, Darek Fidyka is taking his first steps toward recovery. D. T. Max reports.
Some innovations spread quickly. Atul Gawande asks, How do you share the ones that don’t?
Atul Gawande explores the difference between standard medical care and hospice for terminal patients.
What a Texas town can teach us about health care.
Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
Why have most medications never been properly tested on kids?
Atul Gawande writes about the practice of measuring doctors and hospitals against each other, and examines the approaches of different programs that treat cystic fibrosis.
Berton Roueché on an illness at a Florida elementary school with a psychosomatic cause.
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about alcohol, discussing the various symptoms of the hangover; fatigue, headache, thirst, vertigo, and nausea. Fatigue, like pain & …
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about cortisone and ACTH. Case history of a periarteritis modosa sufferer, A N.Y. school teacher named Robert Laurence. Were it nor for …
Berton Roueché on a mysterious case of cyanosis—a type of poisoning so rare that, before 1948, only ten previous outbreaks of it had been recorded in medical literature.