God, glass, LSD By Greg Bottoms
After dropping six hits of acid, my brother had his first psychotic episode.
(12/13/99)

Sights for sore eyes By David Bowman
Henry Grunwald has gone blind, but is seeing more clearly than ever.
(12/09/99)

Tell me where it hurts By Amy O'Connor
Is it ethical for a doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material?
(11/15/99)

"The Red Devil" By Katherine Russell Rich
A woman with cancer rediscovers her body through a passionate love affair.
(11/08/99)

Death wish By David Bowman
Are all people who kill themselves mentally ill?
(11/04/99)

The mysterious mind By Arthur Allen
One author doubts that we will ever explain and control the brain.
(10/27/99)

"Paisley Girl" By Fran Gordon
A skin disease also affects the soul of a young woman.
(10/20/99)

"The River" By Edward Hooper
An exhaustive history of HIV and AIDS offers a bold new theory about its origins.
(10/06/99)

Separated by curtains, united by grief By Pamela Post
In a recovery room, a woman realizes the loss she has experienced, only after hearing another woman's cries.
(10/01/99)

Frozen with fear By James B. Stewart
After a doctor injected him with a strange substance, the patient couldn't scream or move.
(09/02/99)

Living in the Lightning: A Cancer Journal By Natalie Robins
One woman learns how to manage her fear.
(06/28/99)

Cutting into sacred territory By Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
A Navajo medical student faces one of the strongest taboos of her culture -- touching the dead.
(06/09/99)

Raped on an autumn day By Nancy Venable Raine
There's nothing more reassuring than a locked door -- unless you've locked the devil inside with you.
(05/26/99)

The pill from Hell By Stephen Fried
My wife took one innocuous antibiotic pill. Our lives haven't been the same since.
(05/10/99)

Cloning conundrums By Dawn MacKeen
Who gets the money if Bill Gates decides to reproduce himself?
(05/03/99)

With enough aspirin By Luanne Armstrong
Living for now in pain's company.
(04/22/99)

The pelvic By Ellen Lerner Rothman, M.D.
A Harvard med student must separate sex from science when she does her first pelvic and prostate exams.
(04/14/99)

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