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Rachel Pearson is a physician and researcher who holds an MD and a PhD from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas. Her writing has appeared in Scientific American, The Guardian, and the Texas Observer. She is currently a resident at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Pearson’s new book is No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine. Follow her @HumanitiesMD