Category: Medscape
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Editorial: Bioterror Burnout, or Pills to Purge Melancholy
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published September 11, 2002 on Medscape Infectious Diseases The other day the UPS guy dropped off a small box from an address I didn’t recognize, and I must confess that I felt a moment of anxiety as I opened it. It was just a delivery of business cards from a new printer,…
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Editorial: It’s All in Your Head
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published November 13, 2002 in Medscape Infectious Diseases A number of years ago, my editorial assistant at the time, whom I’ll call Nika, stopped by my desk to tell me something important. “I think I have chronic fatigue syndrome,” she said in her Russian-inflected English. “What makes you think that?” I asked with some…
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Editorial: Ain’t Misbehavin’
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published December 11, 2002 in Medscape Infectious Diseases In The Way of the World , William Congreve’s witty Restoration comedy, Mirabell, the gambling, worldly man-about-town, is in love with the beautiful, charming but willful Mrs. Millamant. In Act I he makes a startling revelation: “. . . I like her with all her faults; nay, like…
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Editorial: It Happened One Winter. . . and the Next. . .
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published October 9, 2002 in Medscape Pediatrics A few of us were hanging out the other night in San Diego, during ICAAC (click here to read our coverage), watching the fireworks show from my balcony in Mission Bay. We were chatting about the usual things one chats about at an infectious disease meeting: antibiotic resistance,…
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Editorial: The Elderly — Who Needs ’em?
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published October 9, 2002 by Medscape Infectious Diseases I was talking with a friend of a friend the other night at a local tavern. She’s a third-year MD-PhD, intensely interested in all things medical, and she asked what I was writing about lately. Influenza, I said. Did she know that more people in the…
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Editorial: A Recipe for Raising Happy Children
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published November 13, 2002 by Medscape Pediatrics In Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age,[1] a sprawling tour de force about nanotechnology, global politics, and the nature of culture and society that takes place perhaps 100 years in the future, a Mandarin from the Confucian tradition has come up with a plan to educate millions of…
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Editorial: A Moving Story
by Harry GoldhagenFirst published September 11, 2002 on Medscape Pediatrics When I was a child, I walked to school almost every day. I played stickball, rode my bicycle, threw frisbees, and otherwise ran around a lot. I competed for those neat patches from the President’s Council by doing pull-ups and sit-ups. And I wasn’t an…