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Heloooo, nurse!
Don't let the kitten sweatshirt fool you, Granny's seen a thing or two....
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Bess Stillman
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April 2024

Debugging the Doctor Brain
Who's teaching doctors how to think?
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Bess Stillman
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March 2024

The dangers of walking include falling in love
A love story in 149,774,100 steps
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Bess Stillman
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Phone Calls To Tongueless Men
If you can't speak for yourself, how do you get people to hear?
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Bess Stillman
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mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less
Quick, inexpensive, made-to-order treatments
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Bess Stillman
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February 2024

Pulse Check: The unexpected gift of long COVID. Could new research treat chronic fatigue syndromes and cure cancer?
Brain fog, fatigue, nervous system abnormalities, headaches, and body aches. It's time these complaints were taken seriously. Psychosomatic? Novel…
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Bess Stillman
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Love has won: strangers, lovers, and the doctors who bet on them in a NYC ER.
The night is hot. The city is libidinous. My patients meet under the romantic fluorescent lights of the ER. Is it kismet? Can that be treated with…
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Bess Stillman
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Cancer Speaks Its Own Language
How we spend our words is how we spend our life. What happens when you find yourself speaking a language the people you're closest to don't understand…
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Bess Stillman
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In defense of boring.
An exciting story.
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Bess Stillman
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January 2024

Seven days of silence: a chatterbox's lament
A vocal cord surgery has forced me to stay quiet for an entire week. How will I sound when I finally open my mouth? More importantly - who will I be?
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Bess Stillman
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Pulse Check: "Does OTC nasal spray Azelastine hold a key to COVID and respiratory virus prevention and treatment?"
Respiratory virus season is upon us. Azelastine is a commonly used antihistamine nasal spray with a low side-effect profile. Could it be repurposed to…
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Bess Stillman
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The calculus of connection and the PEG tube struggle.
Jake's illness brought us emotionally closer, while the tubes and port he needs to stay alive push us physically apart. Can we close that space and…
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Bess Stillman
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