Policy & Ethics

Secretary Kennedy has been talking a lot about “shared decision making.” The phrase sounds democratic, humane, empowering; a rebuke to paternalistic medicine and a promise of respect for patient autonomy. But in today’s clinics a

In November 2015, ten-year-old Maya was rushed to the emergency room with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a central nervous system disorder causing chronic pain.

At last month's White House ceremony, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III controlled substance.

The study doesn’t accuse anyone of fraud.

The members of the 119th Congress have a lot on their legislative plates. Legislation on invading Venezuela and Greenland, healthcare costs, a bill to fund the government for the year, and regulating AI, to mention just a few.

It was the horrendous Tuskegee experiment that eventually led to the formation of the Institutional Review Board system, designed to protect human research part

From Frye to Daubert

As a physician, I am attuned to the tension between my craft, grounded in “gold standard” science, and its artful application, grounded in the values of my patients as I experience them.

Turn About in Legal Land

The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order that would have the Dru