Critical Decisions

Great Piece on Critical Decisions

Byadmin September 26, 2012

Here is a well-written piece by The Global Mail discussing Critical Decisions. Take a look.

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Physicians, Psychopaths, and Reality T.V. Stars
Byadmin September 6, 2012

Charlotte Scott had an eye for madness—for just the right amount of madness. As a booker for The Springer Show, her job was to find—and forgive me if I’m getting too technical here—minor nut jobs, the kind of people who were just unbalanced enough to make for entertaining T.V. but not so wacky that they would…

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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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Doctors Urged to Talk About Costs of Treatment
Byadmin October 17, 2013

Physicians need to broach discussions about out-of-pocket costs with patients the same way they discuss a treatment’s side effects, public policy professors wrote. “Admittedly, out-of-pocket costs are difficult to predict, but so are many medical outcomes that are nevertheless included in clinical discussions,” Peter Ubel, MD, of Duke University’s School of Public Policy, and colleagues wrote….

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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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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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Do Oncologists Lie to Their Patients About Their Prognoses?
Byadmin February 7, 2013

Andrews was easily the most anxious patient I took care of that month, a gray Michigan February (is there any other kind?) which I spent in the hospital caring for patients admitted to the general medical ward at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (Andrews is a pseudonym, as are all the patients I blog about, unless…

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Great Piece on Critical Decisions

Physicians, Psychopaths, and Reality T.V. Stars

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

Doctors Urged to Talk About Costs of Treatment

Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

My Kidney Cancer Taught Me That Patients Aren’t Consumers

Do Oncologists Lie to Their Patients About Their Prognoses?

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