susan cohen

It doesn't get any better than the review of "Normal at Any Cost" in Science Times, the New York Times health and science section. Dr. Abigail Zuger in the July 28 edition really got what we were after, which is more than telling the history of height, fascinating as that is. She perceived the story's relevance to the health care debate, and its importance as a cautionary tale for those who intend to become doctors. Here are a few choice quotes:

"...its overtones of both “Gossip Girl” and the Book of Ecclesiastes make it irresistible...""Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove, both experienced medical journalists, know how to tell a story, and they could not have picked a better allegorical case study of modern medicine than the story of children’s height...""'Normal at Any Cost' tells its own story with a pace and fluency sadly rare in medical journalism, and like the best in all literature, it illuminates the surrounding landscape as well."