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The story of a miracle of medicine and of two men--a patient who severely injured his face in a suicide attempt and a doctor with a passion for helping those with facial differences--and how they formed an inextricable bond. In 2006, at the age of 21, electrician apprentice Andy Sandness spent Chr... Read More about Face in the Mirror: A Patient, a Surgeon, and a Second Chance at Life

The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy... Read More about The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

The basis of the forthcoming feature film Nuremberg, starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red ha... Read More about The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the country’s oldest active missing-child investigations   On a cold November afternoon in 1951, three young boys went out to play in Farview Park in north Minneapolis. The Klein brothers—Kenneth Jr., 8; David, 6; and Danny, 4—never came h... Read More about The Lost Brothers: A Family's Decades-Long Search

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Goring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a... Read More about The Nazi and the Psychiatrist Lib/E: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII