New Review of Critical Decisions

Byadmin March 21, 2013

A review of Critical Decisions was recently published in The American Journal of Bioethics. You can check it out here.
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Helping Your Doctor Help You: An Interview with Project Millennial (Part 2)
Byadmin March 7, 2013

KARAN: You referred to patient education earlier, not just in terms of treatment information but also the types of questions to be asking. But what about the former? Our generation is definitely comfortable using technology to look up health information, and we get a ton of information through news, magazines, and the general media. But…

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Health Care Cost

Do We Have a Drug Problem in the US?
Byadmin February 15, 2013

Since the recession hit hard a few years ago, health care expenditures have slowed dramatically. It now looks like, at least for medications, cost increases are making a comeback. For instance: Nexium, a heartburn drug, had a 7.8% price hike to a $262 average prescription in the first nine months of 2012. Enough to make…

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More Coverage of Our Out-Of-Pocket Expenses Research
Byadmin April 22, 2016

My colleagues and I have been doing lots of research lately on how physicians and patients discuss out-of-pocket expenses during clinic encounters. One of our recent publications has been getting lots of attention, with this being the latest example. I thought I would share it with you: Recent qualitative findings published in Health Affairs showed that physicians…

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My Kidney Cancer Taught Me That Patients Aren’t Consumers
Byadmin2 June 27, 2025June 27, 2025

My cancer journey began when I went to the bathroom and noticed bright red urine. I remember feeling simultaneously shocked because my urine was full of blood and disappointed that I hadn’t felt pain that would signal a benign problem like kidney stones. “Shit,” I thought to myself, “could I have cancer?” Read more here.

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Informed Consent 1950s Style
Byadmin February 22, 2013

In her deservedly best-selling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot reproduces the language of Lacks’s informed consent document when she was about to undergoing her cancer surgery at Johns Hopkins in 1951: I hereby give consent to the staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform any operative procedures and under any anesthetic…

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Critical Decisions

Physicians and Patients Make Best Decisions Together
Byadmin November 29, 2012

Imagine yourself in this patient’s situation. You have just found out you have cancer, and the next phrase out of your doctor’s mouth is “You’re going to die with this cancer rather than of this cancer.” Which word do you think will jump out of that sentence? “With”? “Of”? My money is on “die.” –…

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New Review of Critical Decisions

Helping Your Doctor Help You: An Interview with Project Millennial (Part 2)

Do We Have a Drug Problem in the US?

More Coverage of Our Out-Of-Pocket Expenses Research

My Kidney Cancer Taught Me That Patients Aren’t Consumers

Informed Consent 1950s Style

Physicians and Patients Make Best Decisions Together

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