The InnovatorMD Global Summit 2024, January 11-13, is the largest physician innovation event in the country with a prestigious line-up of speakers, including colleagues like Amanda Goltz from AWS Healthcare at Amazon and Harvey Castro, MD, author of several books on...
Transforming Primary Care By Breaking The Rules
Whether we recognize it or not, all doctors adhere to a set of unwritten, unspoken rules that dictate the “right way” to act and heavily influence our behavior. These rules aren’t taught in textbooks or in lecture halls. They are observed and subconsciously absorbed...
3 Unexpected & Upcoming Opportunities To Boost Lifestyle Medicine
The theme of this year’s virtual Lifestyle Medicine Summit is “Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Solutions That Work.” The 10-day annual event, hosted by the passionate and dedicated Johannes R. Fisslinger, features nearly 40 presentations and panels with an estimated...
ChatGPT: Physician’s friend or foe?
At the Children’s National Hospital Grand Rounds in Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to deliver the Annual Holbrook Lecture. There, I embarked on a journey through time, tracing the evolution of knowledge dissemination through to the transformative power of...
Healthcare lessons from the PEN America Literary Gala
Founded a century ago in 1922, PEN America (the abbreviation short for “Poets, Essayists and Novelists”) champions the freedom to write, and the power of writing to change minds—and even the world. Literary greats Eugene O’Neill and Robert Frost were among the...
Healthcare policy leaders make their party’s case at Stanford conference
Thirteen years have passed since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, our nation’s last significant piece of healthcare legislation. Though the landmark law helped reduce the number of uninsured Americans and expanded Medicaid in many states, the bigger...
3 Big Changes Coming To American Medicine
U.S. healthcare costs are rising rapidly while American life expectancy has remained stagnant for two decades. Businesses are facing greater economic pressures and looking for ways to flatten the rate of healthcare cost inflation. As a result, more and more...
Life’s most difficult decision: An excerpt from ‘Uncaring’
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1670775877867{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]The following is an exclusive excerpt from the book "Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients," which is available in audio book, ebook and...
Lessons on leadership from hip and knee surgeons
This past weekend, I had the privilege of keynoting the annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) in Dallas. Established in 1991, the AAHKS is the leading organization for knee and hip reconstructive surgeons (total-joint...
Lessons on lifestyle medicine and physician burnout
I was honored to join the annual Lifestyle Medicine Summit (Oct. 21-30, 2022), a 10-day event that brings together experts in public health, wellness coaching, lifestyle improvement and value-based care. I was invited to speak by summit host Johannes R. Fisslinger...









