Patient Stories

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 [...]

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 topics from [...]

The January 2020 issue of the Harvard Business Review featured an article on the 5% of patients who account for 50% of healthcare costs. In it, Philip Madvig and I presented a strategy for (a) [...]

When corporate executives, health care leaders, and policy makers discuss the challenge of curbing U.S. health care costs, the conversation invariably turns to the sickest 5% of the population, [...]

Las Vegas looked like the center of the healthcare universe today as it played host to the annual HLTH conference. HLTH is the largest and most important event for health innovation and [...]

There’s no shortage of surveys that examine physician burnout from the perspective of the doctor. In July, readers of the “Monthly Musings On American Healthcare” newsletter were asked to offer a [...]

This brief excerpt from the book “Mistreated” tells the story of my father’s life and his heroics during the Battle of Normandy. As the world remembers the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6,  [...]

In May, I dedicated the “Monthly Musings On American Healthcare” newsletter to my mother, Lillian. In the days that followed, I received dozens of emails from readers who offered similar stories [...]

On Forbes, my selections for top healthcare stories of 2017 reflect a year filled with ups and downs, controversy and intrigue. New mergers bloomed whereas others wilted away. All year, Congress [...]