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Best Doctors: The 2012 List

The Top 1,300 Physicians

Our annual listing of the top physicians in every specialty.

Features

	Zohydro Meet the Internet’s Most Famous Pimple-Popping Dermatologist

Sandra Lee was a run-of-the-mill California doctor. Then she started filming as she exploded her patients’ pimples.

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Coffee science is the best science.

Outliers

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Watching the darkness close in for years and years.

Guide

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Some concerning methodology issues pervade this type of research.

Testimony

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Secrets from the science of longevity.

Trends

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When Salinas performs a spinal tap on a patient, he can feel the needle going into his own lower back.

Outliers

hospitalsWhy We Need a Better Way to Treat Chronic Pain

The current method — the pain-intensity scale — may have contributed to the opioid addiction epidemic, argue some pain-perception experts.

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