Book Excerpts

The following is an exclusive preview of my new book “ChatGPT, MD: How-AI Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine,” which was a unique, six-month collaboration [...]

This spring, I will publish my third nonfiction book, “ChatGPT, MD,” which explores the immense changes that generative AI will bring to healthcare. It is my prediction—based on robust data and [...]

In this survey, the third of the Fixing Healthcare franchise, we asked listeners: “Which of medicine’s cultural issues are most concerning to you?” Options were based on insights and [...]

The burnout epidemic in American medicine impacts over half of all doctors. More than ever before, physicians report feeling anxious, isolated and dissatisfied at work. Doctors have so soured on [...]

One year ago, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stood on stage at the Corridor Business Journal’s annual Health Care Summit. In his keynote address, he told the crowd about a bipartisan plan [...]

As an author, speaker and news contributor, I try to read as much as I can about the world of medicine and the world beyond it. I find the two are often intimately entwined and open interesting [...]

This week I had the privilege to present the keynote address at the fourth annual supplementary health forum (Forum da Saúde Suplementar), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a focus on “The [...]

The January issue of my newsletter “Monthly Musings on American Healthcare” is dedicated to effective leadership, a subject that’s dear to my heart. As CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, I [...]

As the former CEO of the nation’s largest medical group, I’m passionate about (and frustrated with) the current care-delivery system in the United States. Today’s hospitals are inefficient, [...]