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We like to tell ourselves that even though we pay eight to ten times more for healthcare than any other country, we get the best care.  But that’s

We are in the middle of a medical revolution. It is entirely possible that within four to ten years, a person diagnosed with cancer will be able to

We are at the beginning of a medical revolution.  We can now genetically engineer pigs who are immune to deadly diseases and (as I wrote elsewhere) we can

Only five patients were cured of lymphoma months after a cancer cure became available. We’ve had a cure for Hepatitis C for years.  But only now is it

Andy Slavitt noted that we tend to have a major discussion about healthcare once every decade. Trouble is, that when we talk about it, we focus mostly on

Read virtually any healthcare publication and you read about shortages. These mean providers of all types—doctors, clinics, midwives, pharmacists charge whatever they can get away with.  If you’re

The medical training we all need Whether people recover from mental illness or addiction depends, in large part, on how well they get along with their therapists. Further,

  Let’s admit—in how we fund substance use treatment—that we don’t know everything about our brains If we don’t know something, we should say so.  If we don’t,

The other day, I listened to a podcast about taxes.  (Please don’t shut down this post immediately; it was a thought exercise more than anything else.)  The idea

This feels like a weird—and not in a good way—election doesn’t it?  A lot of ink has been spilled on why that might be so I thought maybe