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Everyone wants the perfect cure. Stories from medicine, art, culture and history about our obsession. Posts about once a week.

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About Kristin Gourlay

Chicago-based journalist, writer, musician. Pubs in The Rumpus, McSweeneys, NPR, Catapult Story, Off Assignment. Historical fiction novel in progress.

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