Jane Brody, health writer, gets personal Three lectures are planned to celebrate the School of Medicine's first quarter-century of accomplishment in education, research and patient care. Stuart Altman will be the first on Dec. 2. For Brody, personal health columns sometimes mean delving into her closet and shaking out the skeletons.
People love it.
They especially love it when I admit to my fallibilities, like the column I wrote about trying to get over my addiction to chocolate-covered coffee beans. More seriously, Brody was diagnosed with breast cancer and wrote about her experience. The feedback has been phenomenal. People tell me they have gotten mammograms, they've gotten their mothers to go for mammograms, they've realized that just because they've gotten negative mammograms doesn't mean they're home free. Some people have reconciled their decision not to take tamoxifen.