Jerome Groopman

Jan 23, 2025 | ama-assn.org | E. Wesley Ely |Atul Gawande |Jerome Groopman |Steven D. Levitt

The physician’s day rises and falls with the written word: an unexpected laboratory result, a practice-changing medical journal publication or a news story about a trend affecting patients’ access to care. But there may be an opportunity for physicians to dive into some longer and more rewarding reads.

Jun 17, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jerome Groopman

Some fifty pages into his autobiography, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” (Viking), Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), describes a moment of horror when he and his colleagues realize that the scale of the epidemic they are dealing with is far greater than previously supposed: “Thousands and thousands of people had been getting infected before we knew that the disease existed, and they were passing the infections...

May 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jerome Groopman

Four times a year, I attend the Yizkor service at synagogue. Yizkor in Hebrew denotes “remembrance,” and the official name of the service, Hazkarat Neshamot, means a “remembering of souls.” During the service, I call to mind loved ones who have died—parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, close friends—reliving shared times that were cherished, and some that were fraught. I think about what I learned from these people, several of whom were in my life from my first moments of awareness.

May 3, 2024 | hnn.us | David P. Barash |Rick Shenkman |Jerome Groopman |Christopher Chabris

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Apr 13, 2024 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Jerome Groopman

For nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest issue, he reviews Andrew Leland’s memoir, which recounts the writer’s experiences as his eyesight declined.