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"In Central Park, post-injection, a faint stinging in my butt, I sit on a bench dedicated to the loving memory of the Cohens and think about the intestinal meta-narrative." nytimes.com/2022/10/02/sty…

“It’s a comforting thought, that skin and bone are all we need as buttresses between self and world, that we have all the inner architecture we need to be haven to ourselves and others.”

"We are witnessing the slow death of American medical ideology." nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opi…

For the new issue of Harper's, I put on my best Jerry Seinfeld voice and asked, What's the deal with work? harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

I love the critique that @laurakolbemd embeds in this generous review: "The new nonfiction writer is almost the opposite of the journalist: instead of standing outside their subject and looking in, this writer is openly an insider." nybooks.com/articles/2023/… via The New York Review of Books

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I'm not sure how miranda featherstone manages to write so beautifully from the depths of chemo, but this is another stunner: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

regarding feeds and tubes (thanks Angela Chen) wired.com/story/chronic-…

As debate over the ethics of displaying human remains rages, people are wondering if Philadelphia’s iconic medical history museum can survive — or if it even should. phillymag.com/news/2023/09/2…

🔔 Bonus episode alert! 🔔 #SmallTalkBigTopics is back for a special episode! Listen in as Matthew Whitson MD MSEd, CS Tse, MD, Nitin Ahuja and Amit Patel, MD, AGAF, FACG discuss #GI + climate change, #greenendoscopy and more. ♻️ 🎧 Apple: ow.ly/wGuh50Q5umB 🎧 Spotify: ow.ly/jbI750Q5uny

Nitin K. Ahuja (Nitin Ahuja) on the complexity of our microbiomes and a recent spate of books about “gut health” go.nybooks.com/3SHd3IA

Proud to welcome our incoming fellows to our family! Excited to work with such a talented group #futureisbright Appreciate the hardwork of our fellowship leadership @PennGIHep Marina Serper, MD, MS Nitin Ahuja American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) ACG

If you read one thing this weekend, read this sharply beautiful essay about beauty (also cancer, chemo, griefs that are easier and harder to name) by my dear friend miranda featherstone. Just stunning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

for my The New Yorker column this week (every Weds!) I wrote about my favorite topic, encountering strange things on the internet late at night newyorker.com/culture/infini…

I have an essay on “Supply Side Healthcare” up in ⁦Phenomenal World⁩ that synthesizes my thinking about what healthcare reform can & cannot accomplish, how it can (& should) redistribute time, & why inequality is the exchange currency of time. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/suppl…

So proud of @PennGIHep fellow Sarju Panchal for his skillful presentation of our study on endoscopy outcomes in patients treated with GLP-1 RAs (during the #OMN Section Distinguished Abstract Plenary💪🏾) Outstanding work Sarju! #OMNCouncil #DDW2024

At last, my big IBS essay is out today in Aeon Magazine. I wrote about the history of this common illness, why it's undertreated in patients who are told their symptoms don't matter, and why it's way overdiagnosed in patients with GI diseases like Crohn's. aeon.co/essays/why-doc…

I wrote about my dad, who I love very much. nytimes.com/2024/06/30/mag…