3 Tips to Get to Know Your Doctor

Byadmin October 17, 2012

Here is a USA Weekend piece on the type of advice I give in Critical Decisions – how to make stronger connections with your doctor.

Critical Decisions | Medical Decision Making

Getting A Colonoscopy? Ask Your Doctor About Using An AI Copilot
Byadmin2 January 7, 2025January 7, 2025

Colon cancer is often preventable with timely screening. One way to be screened is through a procedure called colonoscopy, where a physician examines your colon with a camera to look for precancerous polyps. Unfortunately, some physicians are not as thorough as they should be and overlook growths they should be removing. It might be time…

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Ethics | Health Care Cost

The True Immoral Acts Behind The First "Test Tube Baby"
Byadmin January 28, 2013

The first test tube baby was born July 25th, 1978 in the north of England. Louise Brown was called the “baby of the century” by some and a “moral abomination” by others. It wasn’t Brown who critics accused of being immoral, of course. She was just a blameless infant. Instead, it was her doctors who…

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Critical Decisions

Review of Critical Decisions
Byadmin February 6, 2013

“Revolutions are often fought over dichotomies—the king versus the people, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, and, of course, the autonomous patient versus the paternalistic doctor.” So observes Peter Ubel in the conclusion of Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together. Who decides? Doctor or patient? For decades, too…

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Health Care Cost

Why Discussing the Cost of an MRI to Evaluate Knee Pain Can Be a Total Pain
Byadmin November 15, 2013

I want to share a wonderful blog post with you, written by one of “my” students, Laura Mortimer – a student in the Masters in Public Policy program at the Sanford School at Duke, who also happens to be a talented writer. In linking to her post, and then calling her my student, I of course…

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Critical Decisions

Good Advice Is Possible – and Available!
Byadmin December 9, 2013

I recently opened up a mysterious package that arrived at my front door, and discovered the German edition of Critical Decisions. At first I assume the title was somehow referring to me as a gutter rat, or signifying that my book was the kind of thing you can find in a sewer. But now I…

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Critical Decisions

Video Introduction to Critical Decisions
Byadmin November 20, 2012

Here is my latest Critical Decisions video. This one gives a broad introduction to the reasons I wrote the book.

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3 Tips to Get to Know Your Doctor

Getting A Colonoscopy? Ask Your Doctor About Using An AI Copilot

The True Immoral Acts Behind The First "Test Tube Baby"

Review of Critical Decisions

Why Discussing the Cost of an MRI to Evaluate Knee Pain Can Be a Total Pain

Good Advice Is Possible – and Available!

Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

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