The New York Times Magazine recently published an article about the genetic components of stress. The article, titled “Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?”, discusses a series of studies examining how our genes determine the ways in which we react to stressful s

Imagine if your state chose to rank surgeons practicing at public teaching hospitals, and then published these rankings in the local paper. Doctors whose patients die or fail to recover quickly would receive poor rankings, while doctors whose patients fully and quickly recover would r