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quinn.anya/flickr A Hazard of Impatient Medicine
The doctors' productivity report card was titled, “Cancer Follow Up – Routine,” not “Psychiatric Consultation – Emergency.”
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brykmantra/flickr Exchanging a Blanket for a Code Blue
How some hospitals are prioritizing comfort and connection at the end of life
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When a Friend Falls Ill
Expect neither exemptions nor easy explanations.
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Medicine's Most Important Teachers
Education for doctors begins and ends with patients.
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Helping Make the Best of the End of Life
A palliative care success story
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What Would the 'Exercise Pill' Mean?
The idea plays to our love of efficiency, spirit of entrepreneurship, and longing to install physicians and scientists as the new priests of the age.
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Our Undue Focus on Long Life
Americans are living longer but not necessarily better.
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Massive Open Online Healthcare
Simply eliminate the human element, and costs will plummet toward zero.
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Medicine's Fading Traditions of Generosity
What is the mission of a hospital?
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What Accountable Health Care Means
We can be our best only if we bear at least some of the costs of the choices we make.
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Is Obesity Really a Disease?
The relationship between health and body weight is not as straightforward as the American Medical Association might have us believe.
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The Incarceration Epidemic
About one-fourth of all incarcerated people on Earth is in the U.S. That constitutes a public health problem.
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When People Seem to Want to Be Sick
Call it a syndrome, if you will
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The Drawbacks of Data-Driven Medicine
"I have often beheld two such sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs."
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Finding the Right Hospital
What's good for patient satisfaction may not be good for medicine. Awash in marketing, the key questions to consider when choosing a hospital
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A Study in Deception: Psychology's Sickness
For many social scientists, deceptive research methods are accepted as a necessary evil.
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What Makes a Medical School Great?
With only 20,000 new M.D.'s graduating each year to help care for a nation of over 310 million people, optimizing their education is critical.
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How Health Research Misdirects Us
Improving one isolated health parameter such as blood pressure does not necessarily make us healthier overall. Studies will not supplant the basic principles of living well.
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Human Connection and the Downside to Private Hospital Rooms
What the fanciest hospital suites forget
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Is Lying Bad for Us?
There are mental and physical consequences, but we should strive to live more truthfully, regardless, to best understand reality.
