Curtis Brainard takes aim at a recent Washington Post health section story in a CJR Observatory post about deep vein thrombosis, in which blog clots form in the legs and can travel to the lungs, resulting in deadly embolisms. The story's author, John Donnelly, "badly mischaracterized the dangers of long-distance airplane travel," Brainard writes, citing statistics from the College of Chest Physicians that warn against using aspirin or anticoagulants to prevent DVT.
