Suzanne Koven MD, MFA

Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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Book Reviews & Features

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Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Comen about her book All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today, at Harvard Medicine Magazine

“’Oh I Suppose I Should’: A Poem on the Pressures of Perfectionism in Medicine?” with Nanako Shirai BA, MS and Andrea Wershof Schwartz MD, MPH, MA in The Journal of General Internal Medicine

“What to Read When You Want to Know What Your Doctor is Really Thinking” at The Rumpus

Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar at The Los Angeles Review of Books

Sick by Porochista Khakpour at The Los Angeles Review of Books

The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks in The Boston Globe

Eros and Illness by David B. Morris at The Los Angeles Review of Books

Bellevue  by David Oshinsky in The Boston Globe

The Finest Traditions of My Calling  by Abraham M. Nussbaum in the Los Angeles Review of Books

The Informed Parent  by Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham PhD in the Boston Globe

Snowball in a Blizzard by Dr. Steven Hatch in the Boston Globe

The Heart  by Maylis De Kerangal in the Boston Globe

The Good Death  by Ann Neumann in the Boston Globe

Piece of Mind  by Michelle Adelman in the Boston Globe

Into the Magic Shop  by James R. Doty MD in the Boston Globe

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism  by John Donvan and Caren Zucker in the Boston Globe

Cure  by Joanna Marchant in the Boston Globe

Navel Gazing by Michael Ian Black in the Boston Globe

The Digital Doctor  by Robert Wachter in the Boston Globe

The Hidden Half of Nature by David Montgomery and Anne Bikle in the Boston Globe

Too Much of a Good Thing  by Lee Goldman in the Boston Globe

Lactivism  by Courtney Jung in the Boston Globe

Concussion  by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the Boston Globe

The Death of Cancer  by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn in the Boston Globe

Gratitude by Oliver Sacks in the Boston Globe

Bread, Wine Chocolate  by Simran Sethi in the Boston Globe

Alone On the Wall  by Alex Honnold in the Boston Globe

Adventures in Human Being  by Gavin Francis in the Boston Globe

White Matter  by Janet Sternburg in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Black Man in a White Coat  by Damon Tweedy in the Boston Globe

On The Move  by Oliver Sacks in the Boston Globe

The Fall: A Father’s Memoir in 424 Steps by Diogo Mainardi in the Boston Globe

Being Mortal  by Atul Gawande in the Boston Globe

On Immunity: An Innoculation  by Eula Biss in the Boston Globe

New Life, No Instructions  by Gail Caldwell at The Los Angeles Review of Books Blog

Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician  by Sandeep Jauhar in the Boston Globe

Once I Was Cool  by Megan Stielstra at The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison at The Los Angeles Review of Books

Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir  by Floyd Skloot in the Boston Globe

What Makes Olga Run?  by Bruce Grierson in the Boston Globe

For the Benefit of Those Who See  by Rosemary Mahoney in the Boston Globe

Knocking on Heaven’s Door  by Katy Butler in the Boston Globe

The People in the Trees  by Hanya Yanagihara in the Boston Globe

Do You Believe in Magic?  by Paul Offit in the Boston Globe

High Price  by Carl Hart in the Boston Globe

The Book of Woe  by Gary Greenberg in the Boston Globe

The Interestings  by Meg Wolitzer in the Boston Globe

An Enlarged Heart  by Cynthia Zarin in the Boston Globe

All This Talk of Love  by Christopher Castellani in the Boston Globe

Hallucinations  by Oliver Sacks in the Boston Globe

Winter Journal by Paul Auster in The Boston Globe

Twelve Patients by Eric Manheimer in The Boston Globe

The Cost of Hope  by Amanda Bennett in The Boston Globe

God’s Hotel  by Victoria Sweet in The Boston Globe

Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra in The Boston Globe

Your Medical Mind by Jerome Groopman MD and Pamela Hartzband MD in The Boston Globe

American Anthrax  by Jeanne Guillemin in The Boston Globe

Beautiful Unbroken  by Mary Jane Nealon in The Boston Globe

House on Fire: The Fight to Eliminate Smallpox  by William H. Foege in The Boston Globe

The Faith Club  by Ranya Idilby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner on InterfaithFamily.com

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union  by Michael Chabon on InterfaithFamily.com

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