The Angel of Death is passing over the land. But instead of sparing those who had marked their doors with lamb’s blood, as in the Passover story, this angel mostly spares those who have been vaccinated and boosted. Politicians like Sarah Palin don’t get it….

Only in retrospect can I see that I put aside what I had always loved to help my mother and, by extension, all patients who had been objectified by their doctors. Math and science had always come easy. As a girl wunderkind in these fields, I enjoyed the attention of…

Back in 1966, when I was a pre-med major at Brooklyn College, I was the victim of one of those freak accidents that occur in organic chemistry labs. As I was inserting a glass rod into a rubber stopper, the rod broke and the needlelike tip of one part of the fragment…