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During his lifetime, the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, arguably the greatest ever Spanish-language writer, considered One Hundred Years of Solitude, his 1967 magnum opus, to be unfilmable. “The novel, unlike film,” he told an interviewer in the 1980s, “leaves the reader room for creativity, allowing them to imagine the characters, settings, and situations as…

In 2018, Dr. David Suskind, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Seattle Children’s, realized his young patients often left the exam room without a clear understanding of their condition. Despite his best efforts, the medical talk was boring or overwhelming.