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Gideon Gil

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  • Managing Editor, STAT
Boston, Dorchester
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Managing editor @statnews (statnews.com); former @bostonglobe health & science editor; @ahcj veep and board member; Mastodon: @GideonGil@newsie.social
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Gideon Gil, managing editor for enterprise and partnerships, oversees STAT's investigative journalism and special projects. He previously was The Boston Globe's health and science editor for a decade and had a hand in three Pulitzer Prizes. A 2014-15 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, Gideon earned a biochemistry degree from Harvard College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Favorite song: Thunder Road. Favorite animal mating dance: Birds of Paradise. Favorite pet: Moo…

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What You Should Know About Richard Sackler’s Long-Sought Deposition — ProPublica

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By Gideon Gil Verified
| ProPublica
This story is a collaboration between ProPublica and STAT. STAT and ProPublica have published the long-sought deposition of Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Here are answers to some questions about the document. Who is Richard Sackler, and why was he deposed? The son of a Purdue co-founder, Sackler began working at the company in 1971 and has been at various times its president and co-chairman of the board.
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Doctors talk about ethical decisions, surgery on conjoined twins

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By Gideon Gil Verified
| Association of Health Care Journalists
The twin girls were joined at the abdomen and pelvis. They had two heads and four arms, but three legs. They had two hearts, but shared a liver, a bladder, and other organs. One was active, the other subdued and growing weaker. Some 20 hospitals had said they couldn’t help the girls, who had been born nearly two years earlier in a village in Africa. But Dr. Allan M. Goldstein, surgeon-in-chief at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, said yes, they would consider operating to separate the twins.
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