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Patrick Tripp

Patrick Tripp is a physician and an associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

Never Take Hope From the Patient

Never Take Hope From the Patient

Sometimes the best treatment includes a healthy dose of optimism, even when it’s not warranted

by Patrick Tripp | Saturday, February 12, 2022
“We’ll Do Everything We Can”

“We’ll Do Everything We Can”

Sometimes, to save a patient, doctors must move beyond textbooks and embrace the ineffable

by Patrick Tripp | Monday, December 04, 2017

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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