Second Opinion

Know how much a medical service costs could be important in making medical decisions.  But, new regulations that require this information be provided to the public have created databases that are simply unusable.    

When sick and needing surgery do patients want to make decisions themselves or have an expert make the decision?

Improved work-life balance is an important goal, but do workplace wellness programs help us live healthier more balanced lives?

Long grueling work hours and pharmaceutical gifts are still part of medical training.

Medical decisions are complex and we often rely on our values and preferences rather than exclusively on the science.

By messing with the largest and one of the highest functioning health care systems in the nation we are putting our vet’s health at risk.     

Woman’s bodies have long been proxy for politician’s power and control – often under the guise of “morality”. Today access to pregnancy termination is in the news, but before that it was contraceptives.

The data on serious mental illness is surprising and we do not have an adequate response to address the problem.  

This week has been a bad one for woman's reproductive rights and the health care providers who care for them. 

While ordering genetic tests directly from a company seeks to empower patients and puts them in control of their own health data, the test results that are returned are often confusing and leads the person to make incorrect assumptions about their health risks.