Sometimes, before I interview new patients, while I’m waiting for them to be transported from the emergency department to the medical floor, I play a game. I look through their lab tests. I [...]
Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be unstable ground. Consider a young construction worker, a patient of mine, whose hours are cut during the winter. His income drops slightly, and [...]
His wife assured me he was the life of the party, the kind of guy “you pay to stop talking.” But her description only added to the concerns I had about my patient, a drowsy older man with gnawing [...]
How much should we pay for new drugs? That is arguably the most important, complex, and controversial question in health care today. New drugs intended for widespread use — like antiviral [...]