I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. My newest book, Sick to Debt (Yale University Press), explores the challenges of shared decision making between doctors and patients. My research and writing explores the quirks in human nature that influence our lives
How Self-Dealing Is Bankrupting Hospitals And Nursing Homes
For profit entities have found ways to bankrupt hospitals they own while making money off their failure.
Reducing Medicaid Funding Is About To Increase Cancer Deaths, Research Suggests
Looming Medicaid cuts are going to reduce cancer screening and lead to preventable advanced cancers. Thousands of them.
Getting Surgery? Here’s A Question To Ask The Hospital
Your chance of surviving surgery depends not just on the surgeon but on who owns the hospital
Before Getting An Operation, Ask Your Surgeon This Question
surgical outcomes depend on the surgeon's experience
Private Equity-Owned Retinal Practices Perform Fewer Retinal Detachment Procedures
Eye doctors do fewer emergency surgeries after private equity takes over
Another Way Coffee Won’t Kill You
Dispelling long-held concerns, a new study shows that coffee reduces recurrence of some heart rhythm problems
Medicare Can Save $4 Billion On Four Cancer Drugs — Can You Guess Which Ones?
Medicare drug price negotiations on cancer alone could save billions
Upset About The High Price Of Your Hospital Stay? Medicaid Cuts Might Be To Blame
Medicaid funding cuts lead to hospital closures which allows remaining hospitals to raise prices
Are Nursing Homes Lying About Their Patients To Increase Profits? You Decide
When Medicare started reimbursing nursing homes based on how sick their residents are, the facilities started reporting an increasing number of illnesses
A Doctor Clears Up 5 Life-Threatening Misconceptions About Blood Pressure
Almost half of American adults have high blood pressure, a cause in more than half a million deaths each year. But most people don't know understand to control it.