By KIM BELLARD I recently read both Plastic, Inc. (Beth Gardiner) and These Are the Plunderers (Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner), and, boy, am I mad. Nothing in either book really cameContinue reading...
By JOE MKHITARYAN We spend a lot of time talking about who has health insurance. I think we need to spend more time asking who can actually use it. You can approveContinue reading...
By MIKE MAGEE MD I read with interest, Dr. Rachael Bedard’s September 25, 2026 New York Times article titled “Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.” In her secondContinue reading...
By HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career. For most of it, the honest answerContinue reading...
By STEPHEN FARBER Part one argued that patient access was never the finish line; it was the foundation. This is about what we build now that we are standing on it. EveryContinue reading...
By JUSTIN MCKAY When I’m brought back into the diagnostic area, one of the first things I see is a lead apron, well-worn and folded into itself, about ready to slide offContinue reading...
By BRIAN FENGLER Every night in the emergency department, the electronic health record hums with small demands for attention. A nudge about sepsis. A best-practice advisory. A documentation suggestion that arrives betweenContinue reading...
By EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with its own failure modes. Then a patient dies,Continue reading...
By JOHN SAMARAS Most employers still won’t cover GLP-1s for weight loss, and some of them now tell the employee where to buy them without the plan. The International Foundation of EmployeeContinue reading...
I’m inviting you to a virtual Movement Voter Project event with Dr. Atul Gawande on Thursday, October 22, 8PM ET • 7 PM CT • 6 PM MT • 5 PM PTContinue reading...
