This week in the magazine, Jerome Groopman writes about robots and medicine. Today, Groopman answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of their discussion follows. THE NEW YORKER: Hello ...

I often see undetected fear in patients’ eyes as they traverse our complex medical system trying to figure out how to get their worries, aches and pains heard and cured. I work with doctors every day ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dr. Jerome Groopman is a scientist by day. As chief of experimental ...

Jerome Groopman, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of medicine at Harvard, has been awarded the 2006 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting for stories that ...

I spent most of my youth and early adulthood avoiding doctors because I thought I was being eaten alive by a secret mysterious cancer, and I was pretty sure that once it was discovered, physicians ...

I wish I had read this book when I was in medical school, and I'm glad I've read it now. Most readers will knowJerome Groopman from his essays in the New Yorker, which take on a wide variety of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Angelos Delivorrias, director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, knew at a ...

In the catalog of hypochondriac horror fantasies, there are few nightmares worse than that of a missed diagnosis (unless it’s In the catalog of hypochondriac horror fantasies, there are few nightmares ...

Orthodoxies rust easily. Even a benign truth – like the desirability of evidence-based medicine or health information technology – will decay if it is repeated too often or invested with an aura of ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on CNN.com in 2007. Dr. Jerome Groopman knew that he needed to break up with his doctor. Five years ago, when he started seeing his internist, ...

This week in the magazine, Jerome Groopman writes about toxicity and everyday plastics. Today, Groopman answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of their discussion follows. JEROME ...