Randi Hutter Epstein
Randi Hutter Epstein, MD is a medical writer and adjunct professor at The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She is also the managing editor of the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She earned a BS from The University of Pennsylvania, MS from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; and an MD from Yale University School of Medicine. 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, Harpers 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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“Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see childbearing for female employees as convenient?”
“He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.”