Dispatches from a Wonderer
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I Took the Bait: A Defensible Bet (opens the original)
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Many of my posts caution against the eagerness with which certain novel medical and scientific solutions are adopted. A glimmer of hope can be all it takes. I recently, willingly and enthusiastically, asked a doctor to inject an experimental drug hundreds of times into my neurofibromas. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cYRW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%
Starting a PhD at Forty & I Don’t Have a Clue What I’m Doing. (opens the original)
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Exhausted, I sighed. Surrounded by books, sources, and archives. All these names, events, references that overwhelm me. Names like Rosas, Sarmiento, Ingenieros, Ramos Mejia, Coll. What do I build from? I reached for my phone, but there was no map, no location, nothing to help me decide where to go. Disoriented, confused, and frustrated. I was also hooked.1<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WfVZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/
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