Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. is a medical writer and adjunct professor at The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She is also a part-time lecturer in the department of the history of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. She earned a B.S. from The University of Pennsylvania, M.S. from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Randi worked as a medical writer for the London bureau of The Associated Press and was the London bureau chief of Physicians’ Weekly. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, Parents, More, Harper’s Bazaar, among other newspapers and magazines. Randi lives in New York City with her husband, four children, two dogs, and a tortoise. Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank is her first book.

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