A novelist and psychiatrist, Mason received a BA in biology from Harvard University, and later graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. He wrote his first novel, The Piano Tuner, while still a medical student, and his second novel, A Far Country, was published in 2007.
Playing ill or feigning madness has been a con for hundreds of years. But can a fake sickness become a real sickness? More
With an influx of people from all over the world, the city can become a hothouse for foreign flora. More
Pica is an unexplainable food curiosity—the overwhelming desire to eat the inedible. More
The uneasy relationship between magic and medicine. More
