Second Opinion

While the MRI can be enormously useful for a small number of people with back pain, when overused for common back pain it can lead to some serious problems.

Bandura, one of the top five psychologists of all time challenged our approach to learning and changing human behavior.

Loneliness is everywhere and seems to be growing more common. The treatment isn’t medication but social connections.

Are there benefits of stopping smoking once diagnosed with lung cancer?

Government insurance is provided to people for medically necessary care. But, when care is not necessary should it still be provided as a benefit?

Refugees are at high risk for all the stress of changing cultures while being without their usual supports. A bit of prevention may ease their integration into American society.

But, in creating new slots we need to grow health care delivery in places where the need is greatest and the trainees will have the greatest impact on improving the community’s health.

Federal laws are putting many of our young adults in a bind and creating new disparities in health care.

Do the advantages of telemedicine suggest it is an innovation that should last past COVID?

It turns out that clinicians are not very good at estimating the probability of illness which leads to unnecessary care.