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Crime Health

The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust

Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.

Olga Khazan The Atlantic Jan 2021 30min Permalink

World Health

Germany vs. The Virus

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Health

What to Do About Ahav?

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink

Best Article Health

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

Lizzie Presser ProPublica May 2020 30min Permalink

Health

This Controversial Former Death Row Doctor Built an Empire From Treating Georgia Inmates

When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

Max Blau Atlanta Magazine Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Health

Tell Us What You Need

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal

Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?

Laura Beil ProPublica Oct 2018 35min Permalink