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Drug addiction is a learning disorder

Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH
Conditions
April 22, 2016

When I think back about what I learned about drug addiction in medical school in the 1980s, I can’t think of much.

Sure, I talked to plenty of patients who had been snorting coke and injecting heroine. One man with AIDS promised to teach me how to draw blood, if I’d sit by his side and keep him company. He didn’t have any other visitors. Maximum security prison where he was …

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Drug addiction is a learning disorder

Fetal ultrasound and our image oriented society

Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH
Patient
January 17, 2011

An excerpt from Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2010 (paperback January 2011).

On eBay, you can buy a fetal ultrasound scrapbook that has a poem on the first page that begins, “I loved you from the start.” It comes with Care Bear stickers. One of them is a pregnant rabbit eating …

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