Policy & Ethics

Five or six years ago I spent a lot more time in the car, driving from hospital to hospital. One Sunday morning I chanced upon Krista Tippett’s On Being.

It's no secret that environmental groups, anti-science groups, and the industry groups that fund them are very well organized.

We have entered dangerous times in my beloved medical profession. Non-doctor health professionals, backed by powerful lobbies, are increasingly interested in the easing of certain practice restrictions.

If you know a local politician has accepted a small fortune, $300,000, from corporations with a specific agenda, would you believe: (1) They are compartmentalizing their decisions so funding does not matter;

 

Will patients ever shop for health care the way consumers do for an iPhone?

On November 8, I published an article titled, "Whoever Wins On Election Day 2016, American Science Is Still #1 In The World." Tha

John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has made something of a career writing about the quality of scientific reporting. His paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" is among the most downloaded articles from PLoS Medicine.

As a Californian who also lives in New York City, I am fascinated by how these two states do so many things that cost taxpayers money while producing estimates showing how much we all saved, even though taxes remain really high.

Policy decisions should be based on evidence in order to provide the most benefit for the health and safety of the public.