Melissa Korn
@melissakorn.bsky.social
Deputy editor on the media team @WSJ. I like scoops, naps, F1, books and my kid, though not in that order. Co-author of UNACCEPTABLE, definitive book on Varsity Blues college admissions scandal.
And here's the orignial @wsj.com article from last month: www.wsj.com/health/welln...
I Finally Listened to My Body. It Saved My Life.
People ignore serious medical symptoms for many reasons. A WSJ editor shares how she overcame a tendency to minimize pain and made the right decision to head to the ER.
www.wsj.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And here's the orignial @wsj.com article from last month: www.wsj.com/health/welln...
I personally go for F1TV on-demand when I wake up! I value my sleep too much to watch most of the races live.
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I personally go for F1TV on-demand when I wake up! I value my sleep too much to watch most of the races live.
I'll admit, I did go ahead and start my paperwork after reading this story (can upload most things online, ahead of the impossible-to-get appointment). Really not a huge issue if you have a passport, of course. But yeah...if this is really real this time, gulp.
April 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'll admit, I did go ahead and start my paperwork after reading this story (can upload most things online, ahead of the impossible-to-get appointment). Really not a huge issue if you have a passport, of course. But yeah...if this is really real this time, gulp.
Favorite quote from the story, by a professor who reviewed new Adalytics research on the shortcomings: “It’s like, can you tell the difference between a person and a person-shaped sock puppet that is holding up a sign saying, ‘I am a sock puppet’?”
March 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Favorite quote from the story, by a professor who reviewed new Adalytics research on the shortcomings: “It’s like, can you tell the difference between a person and a person-shaped sock puppet that is holding up a sign saying, ‘I am a sock puppet’?”
And yes maybe I'm still a little bitter that UNACCEPTABLE never made it to paperback.
March 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And yes maybe I'm still a little bitter that UNACCEPTABLE never made it to paperback.