LINDA, IN THERAPY, AT A QUILTING RETREAT
I have
written about Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
numerous times. He is the author of a
tremendously valuable book about cancer, The
Emperor of All Maladies, which I praised wholeheartedly, as well a later
book, The Cell: an intimate history, which I didn’t like
nearly so well. Mukherjee also writes
magazine articles and appears on TV. I
find this remarkable, because – as I understand it – his “day job” is full-time
cancer researcher. I chided him about
becoming spread way to soon in an earlier blog:
https://ljb-quiltcutie.blogspot.com/2018/06/god-damn-it-sidd-get-back-to-work.html.
Well, seems
Sidd doesn’t read my stuff, because he has published yet another lengthy essay,
this time in the New Yorker
Magazine.
So, about
this article… It’s long. It’s easy to read. It has lots of interesting information, much
of which you probably already know. I
think it is a bit disorganized, but Sidd is a certified genius, so what do I
know? It starts out as a selective history
of the development of cellular medicine, gives you a brief explanation of how
CAR T therapy works, or does not work, then ends with a discussion of how we
are going to pay for cures of the future.
And throughout Sidd, masterful writer that he is, keeps you hooked with
human interest stuff.
Okay, I
recommend that you undertake this article.
Sidd is super bright and well educated, so anything he writes is worth
reading. But, as I’ve expressed before –
I wish he would put more of that intellectual energy into curing cancer.
Put on that
white coat, Sidd!
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