The prominent New York City gynecologist didn’t bother to conceal his disdain.
“Stop practicing Google medicine,” Lina Kharnak remembers the doctor chiding her when she asked about a possible cause of her worsening leg and back pain. The disease about which she was inquiring, he said brusquely, has different symptoms.
Three months earlier, Kharnak, 49, a Manhattan lawyer, had heard something similar from another doctor. Both specialists offered to prescribe drugs to treat some of her symptoms, she said, but made it clear they blamed her worsening health on excess weight. Read More...
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Season 8 Episode 10 | 26m 48s | Video has closed captioning.
It was the verdict heard around the world, one that has continued to haunt and divide our country’s collective conscience. In this episode, Scott Alexander, a master of dramatizing true life events, discusses developing and writing the award-winning series The People v. O.J. Simpson, one of the most notorious American crime stories for the screen. Aired: 06/16/18 Rating: NR ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sa7SZ6arn1%2BrtqWxzmiroZ1dpbKwvMueZK9ln596tLXMqaqopl2jgriyyZ9m
It was high noon on Easter 1873 when the white mob came riding into Colfax.
Five months earlier, Louisiana had held its second election since the end of the Civil War and the beginning of black male suffrage. But some whites had refused to recognize the result, and former Confederate soldiers had committed acts of racial violence across the state.
When a former slave was fatally shot near Colfax, around 150 black men holed up inside the river town’s courthouse to wait for federal troops. Read More...
