‘This Is Our Chernobyl’: New York City’s Doctors and Nurses Are Terrified
For Vice
Health care professionals fear they’re being put at risk and set up for failure during one of the most critical fights in the city’s history.
Author: Katie MacBride
Katie MacBride is a freelance journalist, essayist, and co-founder/associate editor of Anxy magazine. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Vice, Playboy, and Buzzfeed, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter: @msmacb
911 Dispatchers Hear the Worst Moments of Our Lives. Who Listens To Them?
Everyday, they grapple with traumatic experiences, punishing hours, and high rates of PTSD. No one seems to care—not even the people they call colleagues.
Read MoreWill Hill’s Pay for Selling Poison?
For The Canine Review
Sherri Anderson’s Bichon-Yorkie mix, Daytona, was two pounds overweight when she says her veterinarian recommended Hill’s Prescription Diet w/d dry food for weight control. Twelve-year-old Daytona had been eating the Hill’s food for about three years when, according to Ms. Anderson, in late November of 2018, Daytona suddenly became ill.
How are people with OCD handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
For Healthline
“You think, ‘If 20 seconds is good, then 40 seconds is better.’ It’s a slippery slope.”
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Increased Rates of PTSD and Trauma?
for Healthline By now, it’s become extremely clear that the best way to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is for all of us to practice physical distancing and stay home. While cases of COVID-19 are still in all 50 states, states with early shelter-in-place orders have been able to “flatten the curve” more effectively than those that haven’t. […]
Read MoreCan Office Romances Ever Be Ethical? Psychologists and Daters Dish.
For Inverse
The “office romance” has become a confusing, and especially controversial, space to navigate. So how do you navigate it all?
The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing
For Vice
This decade’s egg-freezing boom was supposed to offer career-minded women an empowering insurance policy. But what if the process is actually just a “very expensive lottery ticket”?
What is “Medical PTSD?”
For Healthline
There was the physical trauma of being sliced open and emotional trauma of being packed in ice when I went septic, and the fear that the next thing that could kill me was just a forgotten alcohol swab away.
Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’?
For Healthline
When we stigmatize addiction, no one wins.
One Man’s Tragic Overdose Raises Questions: Is Rehab Getting Too Strict?
For Healthline
How do we decide, exactly, what is and isn’t permissible in rehab?
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