Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

Byadmin September 5, 2012

Want a sneak peak into why I wrote Critical Decisions? Take a look at this 5 minute video. Feel free to send links to all your friends, so they won’t fall behind the times!

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Doctors Can't Be Trusted to Tell Patients Whether They Should Receive Robotic Surgery
Byadmin June 24, 2016

Patients often rely on physicians for information about their treatment alternatives. Unfortunately, that information is not always objective. Consider a man with early stage prostate cancer interested in surgical removal of his tumor, but uncertain whether it is better for the surgery to be performed with the help of robotic technology. He asks his surgeon…

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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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Why Poor People Like Hospitals
Byadmin September 17, 2013

Healthcare markets are complex and confusing places. But one fact is simple and straightforward: all else equal, hospitals and emergency departments are a lot more expensive than outpatient clinics. Which makes it all the more bewildering that so many low income patients prefer hospitals over primary care clinics. Bewildering until now. Shreya Kangovi and colleagues…

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Reducing Healthcare Waste: Don’t Expect Patients To Take The Lead
Byadmin March 25, 2016

Lena Wright’s best friend was hunched over like a character from a French novel, with spinal bones so thin they would fracture with a fit of sneezing. Determined to avoid that fate, Wright (a pseudonym) asked her primary care doctor to test her for osteoporosis with a DEXA scan, also known as Dual Energy X-ray…

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The Lost Art Of Not Ordering A CAT Scan
Byadmin March 3, 2015

She didn’t talk like a stroke victim. “I…I…I…k…kkk…can…can…can’t…t…t…t…talk.” She struggled with her words, struggling on early syllables, only to then spurt out full and correct words. “N…N…N…No.” Recognizing this unusual speech pattern, the neurologist Allan Ropper, author of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole, expertly queried the patient and her loved ones, and determined she had…

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Video Introduction to Critical Decisions

Doctors Can't Be Trusted to Tell Patients Whether They Should Receive Robotic Surgery

Wonderful Review of Critical Decisions in Hastings Center Report

Your Doctor Recommends Robotic Surgery – You Should Be Skeptical

Why Poor People Like Hospitals

Reducing Healthcare Waste: Don’t Expect Patients To Take The Lead

The Lost Art Of Not Ordering A CAT Scan

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