Ford Vox

Ford Vox, MD, is an Atlantic correspondent and a physician.  More

Dr. Vox's writings on health care policy and practice have appeared in diverse outlets including Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Salon, Slate and The Los Angeles Times. He trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Washington University School of Medicine and then completed a neurorehabilitation fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine. While serving as medical director of brain injury rehabilitation at New England Rehabilitation Hospital, he led the new program's development, earning specialty program certification from The Joint Commission. Now based at Atlanta's Shepherd Center, Dr. Vox specializes in caring for people who've acquired complex brain injuries.
Meet One of the Most Zealously Pro-Gun Legislators in America

Meet One of the Most Zealously Pro-Gun Legislators in America

Charles Gregory wants to overturn almost every firearms restriction in Georgia. More »

Georgia's Doctors and the Ethics of Execution

Georgia's Doctors and the Ethics of Execution

The ethical dilemmas raised by Monday's execution of a mentally disabled man call attention to the role of doctors as executioners. More »

'The Cyclops Child': Inhumanity in a 1960 Hospital

'The Cyclops Child': Inhumanity in a 1960 Hospital

"Over all the years that followed, I found myself thinking from time to time of that picture, my hand over the baby's mouth. I knew then, and I still think now, that the right thing to do would have been to kill that baby." More »

How Dr. Drew Sold His Cred to Big Pharma

How Dr. Drew Sold His Cred to Big Pharma

The CNN Headline News health journalist comes under scrutiny after admitting he helped a major drug company promote antidepressants to consumers. More »

Scientology vs. Psychiatry: A Case Study

Scientology vs. Psychiatry: A Case Study

Just because one doctor failed to follow the rules doesn't invalidate the entire field of psychiatry. More »

The Devil's in the Details for Doctor Transparency

The Devil's in the Details for Doctor Transparency

When should doctors disclose their relationships with the wider medical industry? More »

Now the Constitutional Battle Is Over, Let's Embrace a Shared Health System

Now the Constitutional Battle Is Over, Let's Embrace a Shared Health System

One physicians' sigh of relief at today's ruling. More »

Don't Air Sensationalist Trauma: What Al Jazeera Can Teach American Media

Don't Air Sensationalist Trauma: What Al Jazeera Can Teach American Media

The Doha-based news agency refuses to televise footage of France's Jewish school shooting. More »

Sharing Public Breakdowns: What We Can Learn From Jason Russell

Sharing Public Breakdowns: What We Can Learn From Jason Russell

San Diego police recognized that the Invisible Children founder's episode this week was not a criminal one. Why have most of us ignored that? More »

How the Church and Susan Komen Place Themselves Before Health

How the Church and Susan Komen Place Themselves Before Health

Ultimately, Americans want the freedom to make personal health decisions on their own, without the various institutions around us. More »

How Oregon's Death-Penalty Drugs Ended Up With a New York Firm

How Oregon's Death-Penalty Drugs Ended Up With a New York Firm

Andrew Cuomo should demand the pharmaceutical reseller prevent the chemicals from being used in execution chambers. More »

Oregon's Governor Puts Lethal-Injection Drugs Back on the Market

Oregon's Governor Puts Lethal-Injection Drugs Back on the Market

John Kitzhaber has announced an end to death sentences during his term, but he doesn't have a problem with other states ending lives. More »

Boston's Brain Drain: The Cost of Being America's Drunkest City

Boston's Brain Drain: The Cost of Being America's Drunkest City

A doctor who oversaw traumatic brain injury cases at two busy rehabilitation hospitals on the medical aftermath of Boston's big problem. More »

Oregon Defends Its Redistribution of Lethal Injection Drugs

Oregon Defends Its Redistribution of Lethal Injection Drugs

If the governor is serious about his anti-capital punishment stance, he would make sure the state's death drugs never see another chamber. More »

Oregon's New Death-Penalty Hypocrisy

If Governor John Kitzhaber is so opposed to capital punishment, he should end his state's sale of lethal-injection drugs. More »

Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us Sanctioned by Europe

Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us Sanctioned by Europe

The European Union is now blocking importation of lethal injection technology into the United States More »

The Public Health Emergency That Wasn't: Obstetrician Loses License

The Public Health Emergency That Wasn't: Obstetrician Loses License

An editing mistake at the Sun-Sentinel on a story about a doctor losing his license for not reporting a pregnant 12-year-old upset many More »

Why Doctors Protest Too Much

Why Doctors Protest Too Much

We have the right to be political actors -- doctors are citizens too -- but we risk harming the default credibility that comes with the profession if we don't choose our battles carefully More »

Keith Ablow's Mentor: What's Wrong With the 'Medical A-Team' Doc's Ideas

Keith Ablow's Mentor: What's Wrong With the 'Medical A-Team' Doc's Ideas

Ablow, a member of the Fox News 'Medical A-Team,' doesn't want kids watching Chaz Bono because, he says, it could turn them transsexual More »

It's Nurse vs. Doctor on the New York Times Op-Ed Page

It's Nurse vs. Doctor on the New York Times Op-Ed Page

The pitfalls of airing personal grievances publicly, as Theresa Brown did against a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center physician this week More »

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