Breakdown Palace
In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.
In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.
Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.
Matt Goodman D Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
On the failing institution of the teaching hospital.
Lara Goitein New York Review of Books May 2015 15min Permalink
Romantic complications between a surgical coordinator and a brilliant transplant specialist.
"I hadn’t wanted Clara at first, at least no more than any other woman I’d casually slept with. Too bony, too neurotic. Too pale. But when she asked for a ride home from the dinner party where we met, I drove, intrigued at the prospect of UCSF’s top heart-transplant surgeon debasing herself with a med school dropout-turned-cellist."
Rachel M. Mullis Pithead Chapel Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.
Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Jul 2013 2h Permalink
The night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.
Anthony Haden-Guest New York Mar 1980 20min Permalink
Anesthesiologists, in hugely disproportionate numbers compared to other doctors, are getting high.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Dec 2008 20min Permalink