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Paul A. Offit, MD
Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center, an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of ten works of narrative nonfiction, he lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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You Bet Your Life
From one of America’s top physicians, a “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “timely” (Nature) history of risk in medicine Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an…
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Bad Faith
In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country…
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Deadly Choices
In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy was avoidable.…