Poor Historians

By Suzanne Koven,  Illustration by Stephen Doyle
Some Notes on the Medical Memoir

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Issue: Winter 2016 / Volume 92/1
Published: January 4, 2016
Suzanne Koven

Suzanne Koven is a primary-care physician and writer-in-residence in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She contributes the interview column “The Big Idea” to the Rumpus.
Stephen Doyle

Stephen Doyle is the creative director of Doyle Partners. Doyle creates illustrations and constructions for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Wired, and others. He received the AIGA medal in 2014, and received Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communication in 2010.

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