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“How Long Have I Got Left?” By Mark Rosenman, The New York Times. AS soon as the CT scan was done, I began reviewing the images. The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if . . . → Read More: How Long Have I Got Left?
“National Prize Recognizes Excellence in End-of-Life Care.” The Hastings Center. There is a growing and strengthening palliative care movement focused on understanding patients at the end of life, with a sharper focus on the values and behavior of physicians in their care of the dying and a more general effort to gain medical recognition that . . . → Read More: National Prize Recognizes Excellence in End-of-Life Care
“How looking for cancer’s causes became a political act.” By Heather Smith, Grist. How does real political change happen? Jeanne Rizzo has spent decades figuring that out — but not along any typical route. First a psychiatric nurse, then a concert hall manager and film, music, and theater producer, she gradually became more and more . . . → Read More: How looking for cancer’s causes became a political act
“New Truths That Only One Can See.” By George Johnson, The New York Times. It has been jarring to learn in recent years that a reproducible result may actually be the rarest of birds. Replication, the ability of another lab to reproduce a finding, is the gold standard of science, reassurance that . . . → Read More: On Irreproducible results, “New Truths That Only One Can See”
“When the writer becomes the patient” by Karen D. Brown, The Boston Globe. A health journalist who has written about changing guidelines for breast cancer screenings finds herself caught between statistics and personal decisions. She explains in a clear and balanced way how the right recommendation for millions of people might be wrong for a . . . → Read More: When the writer becomes the patient
“Too Much Medicine Happens Too Often: The Teachable Moment and a Call for Manuscripts from Clinical Trainees.” By Tanner J. Caverly, MD, MPH, Brandon P. Combs, MD; Christopher Moriates, MD; Neel Shah, MD, MPP; Deborah Grady, MD, MPH, JAMA Internal Medicine. A columnist at the New York Times asked readers, “Have you experienced too much . . . → Read More: Too Much Medicine Happens Too Often:The Teachable Moment and a Call for Manuscripts from Clinical Trainees.
“New Truths That Only One Can See.” By Julia Belluz, Maclean’s Science-ish. At the Harvard School of Public Health, Stanford professor Dr. John Ioannidis told a room filled with Harvard doctors (and one journalist) that they can’t trust most of the research findings science has to offer. “In science, we are very eager to make . . . → Read More: When science isn’t science-based: In class with Dr. John Ioannidis
“There isn’t a ‘right’ way to die. Journalists should recognise that?” By Marie Ennis-O’Connor, TheJournal.ie. IRELAND – Bill Keller chose to write about Adams using the very words that Lisa has spoken openly about rejecting, such as ‘fighting’, ‘hero’, ‘battle’. If not unethical journalism, it nonetheless speaks to a failure in tone and sensitivity to . . . → Read More: There isn’t a ‘right’ way to die. Journalists should recognise that
“Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release?” By Zeynep Tufekci, Medium.com. Guardian writer Emma G. Keller wrote a cancer-shaming article [archived here] on metastastic breast cancer sufferer Lisa Adams’ social media presence. It was an oddly callous piece—but that was not its only fault. Emma Keller admitted that she had conversed with . . . → Read More: Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release
“What exactly is wrong with the Kellers?” By Christie Aschwanden, Knight Science Journalism at MIT. “Tone-deaf, ghoulish, & lacking in empathy,” tweeted Boing Boing writer Xeni Jardin. “Reprehensible,” wrote Ayelet Waldman. “A tragically shallow misreading,” tweeted Steve Silberman. A pair of opinion pieces published in quick succession by Guardian columnist Emma Keller and her husband, . . . → Read More: What exactly is wrong with the Kellers? |
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