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Articles Written by: ABIGAIL ZUGER M.D.
Electric circuits will break your heart every time. Take my cellphone (please): it went out in the rain a few weeks ago and then lay neglected in a sopping wet coat pocket overnight. The next morning, it was dead.
Nothing revived it, not the usual ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
23 Nov 2009
A stethoscope amplifies inaudible heart and lung sounds in a very satisfying way. If, however, the owner of the organs under evaluation decides to make a comment during the exam, what results is a painfully loud, unintelligible blast of noise directly ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
26 Oct 2009
With all due respect to the seminar room, the boardroom, the hearing room and the Oval Office, a better vantage point than any of them for evaluating and redesigning our health care system is the hospital room (window bed, please).
The chair next to ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
14 Sep 2009
Members of the healing professions who write (generally about themselves) are easy to distinguish from writers who make a living in the healing professions. From the first group comes an endless stream of memoir, self-conscious, well intentioned and ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
24 Aug 2009
Teenagers with an interest in medicine are generally hustled into menial summer jobs in a hospital or lab to familiarize them with the territory. Here’s a better idea: sit them down with a copy of “Normal at Any Cost.” When they finish it (as they will: ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
27 Jul 2009
Say you are living in less than optimal surroundings. Your upstairs neighbor routinely rearranges furniture at midnight. The dog next door is bored and lonely and loud. His owner snarls as you pass by. Your living room is the wrong shape, the windows ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
29 Jun 2009
The array of familiar objects threatened by digital technology encompasses the old (books, paintings) and the new (CDs). And then there is the human body, which counts as both.
Not the bodies we use, of course, but rather the bodies we allow medical ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
27 Apr 2009
There are two sides to every disease story a lot more if you count the patient and the doctor, the patient’s relatives and the doctor’s relatives, the nurses, the therapists and the insurer. What a shame that the only time we ever get to hear all of ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
30 Mar 2009
Seldom can a book stretch to accommodate both its author's and its publisher's fondest hopes: that it be original yet universal, artistic yet practical, and likely to sell briskly for centuries to come.
To understand why Rachel Kauder Nalebuff's "My ...
Seldom can a book stretch to accommodate both its author’s and its publisher’s fondest hopes: that it be original yet universal, artistic yet practical, and likely to sell briskly for centuries to come.
To understand why Rachel Kauder Nalebuff’s “My ...
From ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.,
The New York Times,
23 Feb 2009
