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Extraction

January 9, 2023
When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain. Were you entitled to it? Was it real?

Oxygen

July 19, 2022
Hyperbaric oxygen chambers may sound suspicious, or superstitious, but, for intensive wound healing, they work miracles. There’s just one problem.

The Absolved

November 29, 2018
The man’s cheeks are so hollow and gaunt that the yellow skin on his face hangs off them like dead weight. When he gasps for breath, I notice that there are more teeth missing than not.

My Asylum

February 2, 2015

After more than a century, Britain’s notorious asylums were slated for closure. Where does that leave the people they actually healed?