Danielle Ofri is a practicing physician today. It’s a life she owes in part to mentors like "Joseph Sitkin", who taught her as a resident.. In her essay “Intensive Care” from the book “Writer, MD” – she describes her time as a young doctor and the emotional price that can come with a license to practice medicine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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E.O. Wilson may know more about ants than anyone else on the planet...
Betsy Lerner tells Anne Strainchamps about her long history with Overeaters Anonymous, bi-polar disorder, depression, psychiatric hospitalization and binge eating.
Where are the female scalawags? The lady rogue? Well, Anne Strainchamps set out to find out. She called up Elizabeth Mahon, author of the blog and the book of the same name: “Scandalous Women.”
Christopher Woodward talks with Steve Paulson about the English mania for ruins and why they inspired the Romantic poets. Woodward’s book is “In Ruins.”
Frank Knight talks with Anne Strainchamps about the ancient smells his company creates for natural history museums. He’s especially proud of the T-Rex stink.
Daniel Alarcon is from Peru and the author of “Lost City Radio,” a fable about a nameless country broken in the aftermath of war and the woman who does a radio program for the families of the disappeared.
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