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To the Heart of the Heart
Suzanne Koven turns her ear to “Heart: A History” by Sandeep Jauhar....
Suzanne Koven
Suzanne Koven is a primary care physician and writer in residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and other publications. Her website is www.suzannekoven.com.
Articles
Beyond the Lyme Wars
Suzanne Koven applies a clinical lens to “Sick: A Memoir” by Porochista Khakpour....
On Desire and Disease
Suzanne Koven reviews David B. Morris's "Eros and Illness."...
Who Will Heal the Doctors?
Suzanne Koven examines “The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine” by Abraham M. Nussbaum....
Family History
"It's difficult today to think of lobotomy as surgery, and not torture."...
How to Be a Mother
Suzanne Koven finds a personal memoir of motherhood in Megan Stielstra’s Once I Was Cool: “Stielstra’s prose reads like something your friend needs to tell you right now, before she even takes her coat off.”...
Empathy, Examined
Leslie Jamison gets high marks for The Empathy Exams....
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