Andrew Lea, MD, PhD

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medicine and history // resident physician at brigham & women's hospital // book: "digitizing diagnosis," forthcoming at johns hopkins univ press // greyhound dad // he him his 🏳️‍🌈

http://lea-andrew.com/

Andrew Lea, MD, PhDJun 21, 2023
Precious few things beat the feeling of seeing one’s book as an object in the world. DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS is out next month; pre-order today (bit.ly/lea-diagnosis)! Tremendous thanks to the entire Johns Hopkins University Press team for making it happen.
Andrew Lea, MD, PhDMay 2, 2023
Thrilled to see the new bike lane along South Huntington Avenue! Desperately needed. The street has seen more than its share of cycling accidents. Crash data over the past five years:
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Andrew Lea, MD, PhDApr 10, 2023
My book, DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (JHU Press), is now available for pre-order! It’s a history of early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis—and the larger questions, debates, and transformations that emerged in their wake. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/23077/digitizing-diagnosis
Digitizing Diagnosis

Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America

Andrew Lea, MD, PhDJan 13, 2023

Incredible study. Since the 1970s, ExxonMobile scientists were accurately and skillfully modeling human-caused global warming, even as the company was sowing doubt publicly.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

Andrew Lea, MD, PhDJan 5, 2023
I've never understood how some people find reassurance in "What's the worst that could happen?" Strikes me as a failure of imagination.
Andrew Lea, MD, PhDDec 15, 2022
Lisa HaushoferDec 15, 2022

We have another exciting session of the Applied Medical History working group coming up! Our panelists Carolyn Roberts, Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nathan Ha, Kristen Ehrenberger & Jeremy Green will discuss teaching #histmed to future/current med. professionals.

The session is tomorrow, Friday Dec. 16th, 12-1.30 pm EST. Visit the group's website to get the Zoom link:

https://www.chstm.org/content/applied-medical-history-0

Applied Medical History | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Andrew Lea, MD, PhDDec 13, 2022
Flight? Invisibility? Telepathy? Nah. I'd settle for just being able to take naps effectively.
Andrew Lea, MD, PhDDec 12, 2022
Architect Bertrand Goldberg's original rendering of the Brigham hospital towers (April 1971).
Andrew Lea, MD, PhDNov 20, 2022
When student loan forgiveness dies and my loan servicer starts to garnish my wages, all I ask is that they not use caviar.