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Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

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As seen in: NPR, Psychology Today, The Atlantic, New York Review of Books, Everyday Health, The New Republic, Health Affairs, MedPage Today, Aeon, Spectrum
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn. Senior editor at Everyday Health covering mental health and oncology, co-author of The Death of Cancer (2015), The Empty Room (2004).
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How Finding Ted Got Started — Finding Ted

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By Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
| findingteddevita.com
Ever since this pandemic started, I have had the persistent, pressing, urgent, need to visit my brother. I could not explain it to myself, or others, without sounding crazy. For one, I live in New York City, where the pandemic initially raged. My brother resides in Maryland. Travel made no sense, under, the circumstances. No one wanted New Yorkers crossing their borders, and no form of travel was without risk. And, technically, whatever it was I needed from him could wait, had already waited.
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Can You Go Home Again? — Finding Home Project

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By Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
| findinghomeproject.com
My mom is from Louisiana. Not exotic New Orleans, a place everyone identifies with the state. She comes from DeRidder, in the far west side of the state, close to the Texas border. It’s not Cajun country. Nor is it Creole. It’s a part of the state, I read somewhere, that, at one point in history, used to fall under no one’s domain, a lawless place that attracted criminals trying to stay out of the law’s reach. In its day DeRidder, like many towns in that area, revolved around the lumber trade.
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NIH - Finding Home Project

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By Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
| findinghomeproject.com
A couple of years ago I was picked for a cancer reporting fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It was a great professional opportunity and I was really happy about that. But what I was REALLY happy about was that it would give me entrée to the NIH, the hospital where my brother was hospitalized for most of my childhood, and where I grew up. NIH is both a hospital and a research facility. It used to be the kind of place you could drive up to, park, and walk in.
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