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The Healing Power of Your Own Medical Records

Steven Keating, a doctoral student at M.I.T.’s Media Lab, collected and researched his own patient data, which led to the discovery of a brain tumour. He is shown in front of an image of radiation backscatter from his brain during therapy. Read more about this New York Times news item here.