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in Washington, DC, The United States

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http://talkingtoyourdoctor.org

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ZackBergerMDPhD

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Nonfiction

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Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Peter Ubel, Mack Lipkin ...more

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Zackary Berger, M.D., Ph.D., is a practicing primary care/internal medicine doctor and an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he teaches medical students and residents. He researches doctor-patient communication in the clinic and in the hospital to understand how our health care system can be made more responsive to ordinary people.

His first book, Talking to Your Doctor A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond, is based on his expertise and the experience of his patients. His second book, Making Sense of Medicine, is meant to bridge imperfect medical evidence with the preferences of ordinary people.

Under the pen name Zackary Sholem Berger, he is also a poet, journalist, and translator in ...more

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	Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Health for Everyone: A Guide to Politically and Socially Progressive Healthcare 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Sense of Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Rewriting the erased: Dvoyre Fogel

In a richly diverse issue of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies devoted to inhabiting and examining the work of poet and thinker Dvoyre Fogel, I have the honor to participate with chutzpahdik poems of erasure, finding verse in the disappearance of memory. Thank you to the erudite, careful and patient editors.