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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How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy
Byadmin January 16, 2018

Shutterstock Cancer screening can save lives: Mammographies reduce the chance women will die of breast cancer; and colonoscopies reduce the chance people will die of colon cancer. But should my 93-year-old father receive a screening colonoscopy? The test is uncomfortable, carries risks, and costs money. Even more importantly, my dad probably won’t live long enough…

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Critical Decisions | Health & Well-being | Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Wonderful Review of Critical Decisions in Hastings Center Report
Byadmin December 18, 2014

I’m not sure why I didn’t notice this earlier, but I just came across a very gracious, even overly generous, review of my book, Critical Decisions in the leading journal of bioethics, The Hastings Center Report. I thought I would share it with you: When I finally got eyeglasses as a teenager, after denying the…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Critical Decisions | Ethics | Medical Decision Making

Your Doctor Recommends Robotic Surgery – You Should Be Skeptical
Byadmin2 November 9, 2025November 9, 2025

Your physician has received generous money from one of the companies that manufacture the robots. Consciously or unconsciously, that money could be influencing her recommendation. The positivity of physicians’ comments on X rises significantly among those receiving the most generous industry payments. Read more here.

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Critical Decisions | Health Care Cost

Hear My Discussion with Joe and Terry Graedon on People's Pharmacy
Byadmin February 19, 2013

Here is a link to a podcast of my recent appearance on People’s Pharmacy, an NPR show that hopefully reaches you where you live. (If it doesn’t, you should ask your radio station to pick it up. It is a great show.) In this podcast, Joe and Terry lead me on a wide ranging conversation,…

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Health Care Cost

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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Are Doctors Afraid to Talk Math with Their Patients?
Byadmin March 4, 2013

Before patients can become savvy consumers of healthcare, they need information about their healthcare choices. Too often, such information is nearly impossible to get, especially when it requires doctors to give patients useful statistics about things like treatment side effects. Since publishing Critical Decisions this fall, I have received a number of emails from readers who…

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Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy

Wonderful Review of Critical Decisions in Hastings Center Report

Your Doctor Recommends Robotic Surgery – You Should Be Skeptical

Hear My Discussion with Joe and Terry Graedon on People's Pharmacy

Doctors Urged to Talk About Costs of Treatment

Are Doctors Afraid to Talk Math with Their Patients?

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