Scott Kearnan makes his Boston debut with our 2018 Top 50 Restaurants pack- age [page 72]. Considering our city’s dining scene is buzzier than it’s ever been, Kearnan and his team went beyond the criteria of small plates and superior service to finalize their rankings, ultimately weighing how well each spot fulfilled its mission—and unpacking what the restaurants say about the city as a whole. “The dining world is probably one of the best entry points for telling larger stories about Boston’s culture and the people who make our city tick,” Kearnan says.
Over the course of her
career, lifestyle reporter Erica Corsano has met her share of “imposters”—or would-be socialites so des- perate to be accepted that they exaggerate their life story—but so far, she’s never encountered anyone more audacious than Sager Kopchak. In “The Impossibly Perfect Life of Sager Kopchak” [page 96], Corsano unpacks the story of the now-infamous Winchester resident who defrauded an acquaintance out of a million dollars after also lying to him about under- going cancer treatment. “Faking cancer, when many of us have had people we love die from this truly awful disease?” Corsano asks. “That’s next-level.”
In a city renowned for its
world-class medical profes- sionals, why is it so hard for patients to get face time with physicians? So asks health writer Jamie Ducharme, who addresses Boston’s notori- ously long waitlists for office visits in “The Doctor Won’t See You Now” [page 23]. “I had seen some of the studies around wait times in Boston, and I knew that it was a problem,” Ducharme says. But it wasn’t until she started digging into the data after her own three-hour wait for an urgent- care appointment that she realized just how convoluted patient-processing could COURTESY PHOTOS
be. “Fixing it isn’t as simple as training
more doctors or tinkering with one or two little things,” Ducharme says. “It’s really going to take some systematic changes.”
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