The one time I got tested for COVID-19, I wound up in the emergency room — but not because I tested positive. During the test, as the technician kept inching the swab deeper and deeper inside my nose, I felt…
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Prescription Pad a ‘Lethal Weapon’ for MD Indicted for Murder
A New York physician has been indicted on five counts of murder, with prosecutors alleging he demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life when he prescribed opioids and other drugs to patients who professed substance use disorders and later overdosed….
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An X-ray Like a Christmas Tree: One Refugee’s Mysterious Case
Mohammed Hassan arrived in Canada from a Kenyan refugee camp in September 2015, 46 years old and crippled by such pain that he walked like a man decades older. His pain had grown slowly. It began as stiffness in his…
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