Why this graph is wrong: Since I was an MPH student in 2005, this graph has always haunted me. How is it that in a country where over the past century we have done incredible things we cannot make a dent in life expectancy at birth? On the face of things, the United States looks Read more

The medical gaze Credit: National Cancer Institute, USA, via Unsplash Modern medicine was born out of the Age of Enlightenment. As Michel Foucault describes in, “The Birth of the clinic,” the teaching hospital (Salpêtrière in Paris) transformed medicine from a religious treatise to a discipline focused on intellectual empiricism and rationalism. Through medical gaze (direct Read more

What Matters Most The American Medical Association (AMA) among many medical societies recommend that we deliver value-based care. Value based care is defined as: Much of the discussion today revolves around the denominator (bottom number of the equation) total cost of care. This includes interventions around transparency in pricing, insurance company overhead, predatory billing practices, Read more

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine. Why it will not replace empirical medicine any time soon At last year’s American College of Physicians conference in Boston, Dr Eric Topol presented the keynote address on Artificial Intelligence (AI)in Medicine. In his speech, he foresaw advances in medicine through AI as a unimodal and multimodal approach. In the Read more

As we all watch in horror the events unfolding with the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, one cannot help but think about what is wrong with our healthcare system today. Sure, it is easy to blame the insurance industry and our healthcare systems for the billions of dollars in profit that Read more

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