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Clinical Practice

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Kolata, Gina. "Arthritis Surgery in Ailing Knees is Cited as Sham." New York Times, July 11, 2002.

"Many Doctors Support Lying to Help Patients." Briefs, New York Times, October 25, 1999.

Blakeslee, Sandra. "Knee Ligament in a Transplant Leads to Illness." New York Times, December 5, 2003.

Smith, Craig S. "On Death Row, China's Source of Transplants." New York Times, October 18, 2001.

Blakeslee, Sandra. "40 People Unknowingly got Tissue or Organs from Donor with Hepatitis C; 5 Died." New York Times, October 4, 2002.

Lupo, Alan. "Jody Heymann got her MD, then a Real Lesson in Medicine—from a Hospital Bed." Boston Globe, May 9, 1995.

Levine, Meredith. "Tell the Doctor All Your Problems, but Keep It to Less Than a Minute." New York Times, June 1, 2004.

Perez-Pena, Richard. "Hospitals Didn't Share Records of a Nurse Accused in Killings." New York Times, December 17, 2003.

Kolata, Gina. "Program Coaxes Hospitals to See Treatments Under Their Noses." New York Times, December 25, 2004.

Hoffman, January. "Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road." New York Times, October 14, 2005.

Carey, Benedict. "In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift from Person to Patient." New York Times, October 16, 2005.

Chen, Pauline W. "Heart and Soul." New York Times, October 28, 2007.

Jauhar, Sandeep. "Pitfalls of Linking Doctors' Pay to Performance." New York Times, September 9, 2008.

Dubner, Stephen J., and Steven D. Levitt. "Selling Soap." New York Times, September 21, 2006.

Kolata, Gina. "When the Doctor Is In, but You Wish He Wasn't." New York Times, November 30, 2005.

Steenhuysen, Julie. "Survey of Doctors Finds Placebos are a Common Prescription." Boston Globe, January 4, 2008.

Gilbert, Susan. "Study Finds Doctors Refuse Patients’ Requests on Death." New York Times, November 22, 1995.

Christakis, Nicholas A. "The Bad News First." New York Times, August 24, 2007.

 

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