Health and medicine explained.

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• Cold Comfort Zinc may help your sniffles--but only because you really believe it will.
  Atul Gawande Dec. 26, 1997
  
• Suicide Watch The strange case of Air Force Capt. Craig Button.
  Atul Gawande Nov. 22, 1997
  
• Does the Third World Deserve Second-Class AIDS Treatment? Yes; some help is better than no help.
  Atul Gawande Nov. 8, 1997
  
• Of Course You Don't Like Your HMO It's because your employer chose your health plan, and you didn't.
  Atul Gawande Oct. 25, 1997
  
• Drowsy Docs If tired truckers are a threat, what about those sleep-deprived medical residents?
  Atul Gawande Oct. 10, 1997
  
• Cybertests Hate exams (medical or otherwise)? What if a computer designed them just for you?
  Atul Gawande Sept. 27, 1997
  
• Gamma Burgers Food irradiation is safe, even if it is overkill.
  Atul Gawande Sept. 12, 1997
  
• The Hunger Body chemistry--not willpower--is the key to losing those 10 pounds.
  Atul Gawande Aug. 29, 1997
  
• Rx: Profit Can hospitals serve both patients and stockholders?
  Atul Gawande Aug. 15, 1997
  
• DOA The feds' $24 billion health care program for kids is a flatliner.
  Atul Gawande Aug. 2, 1997
  
• The Unkindest Cut The science and ethics of castration.
  Atul Gawande July 12, 1997