In the late fall I took the girls to the movies and the theater as often as I could, to step away for a few hours from the medicalized monotony of daily life.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opinion/childhood-cancer-family-conversations.html

The St. Louis clinic apparently had 613 patients who were medicalized during the relevant timeframe (Ghorayshi mentions 598, a number she takes from Washington University’s internal investigation, but Reed’s documents ).

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-slow-trek-back-to-truth