The New Yorker
Can Forgetting Help You Remember? – May 2024
Anthony Fauci’s Side of the Story – Jun 2024
In Praise of Parasites? – Dec 2022
Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor – Jul 2022
Understanding the Body Electric – Nov 2021
The Politics of Stopping Pandemics – Mar 2021
The Long Game of Coronavirus Research – Jul 2020
Do Some Surgical Implants Do More Harm Than Good? – Apr 2020
A New Study Questions the Effectiveness of a Potential “Game Changer” Against the Coronavirus – Apr 2020
Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? – Oct 2019
The Troubled History of Psychiatry – May 2019
The London Patient and a Plan to End the H.I.V. Epidemic in the United States – Mar 2019
The History of Blood – Jan 2019
A Stunning Breakthrough in the Fight Against a Devastating Blood Disease – Apr 2018
What’s Missing from the National Discussion About the Opioid Epidemic – Nov 2017
The Secrets of Sleep – Oct 2017
The Real Message of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Oct 2017
Is Zika Gone for Good? – Sep 2017
Is Fat Killing You, or Is Sugar? – Mar 2017
The Voices In Our Heads – Jan 9, 2017
The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2016 – Dec 29, 2016
The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 – Dec 23, 2015
Oliver Sacks, the Doctor – Aug 30, 2015
Inflamed – Nov 30, 2015
Can AIDS Be Cured – Dec 29, 2014
Print Thyself – Nov 24, 2014
The Peanut Puzzle – Feb 7, 2011
The Plastic Panic – May 31, 2010
Open Channels – May 4, 2009
Robots – Ask the Author – Nov 2, 2009
That Buzzing Sound – Feb 9, 2009
Robots That Care – Nov 2, 2009
Superbugs – Aug 11, 2008
Buying A Cure – Jan 28, 2008
Silent Minds – Oct 15, 2007
What’s The Trouble? – Jan 29, 2007
Being There – Apr 3, 2006
The Preeclampsia Puzzle – July 24, 2006
The Right To A Trial – Dec 18, 2006
A Model Patient – May 2, 2005
The Pediatric Gap – Jan 10, 2005
When Pain Remains – Oct 10, 2005
When Pain Remains – Questions & Answers – Oct 10, 2005
The Grief Industry – Jan 26, 2004
The Reeve Effect – Nov 10, 2003
The Bionic Eye – Sept 29, 2003
The Edmonton Protocol – Feb 10, 2003
Sick With Worry: Treating Hypochondria – Aug 11, 2003
Science Fiction – Feb 4, 2002
Hormones For Men – July 29, 2002
A Knife In The Back – Apr 8, 2002
Dying Words – Oct 28, 2002
Eyes Wide Open – Dec 3, 2001
God On The Brain – Sept 17, 2001
The Thirty Years War – Jun 4, 2001
The Prostate Paradox – May 29, 2000
Second Opinion – Jan 24, 2000
Hurting All Over – Nov 13, 2000
Medicine on Mars – Feb 14, 2000
Contagion – Sept 13, 1999
Heart Surgery Unplugged – Jan 11, 1999
Pet Scan – May 10, 1999
Decoding Destiny -Feb 9, 1998
A Healing Hell – Oct 19, 1998
Dr. Fair’s Tumor – Oct 26, 1998
Super Aspirin – Jun 15, 1998
The Shadow Epidemic – May 11, 1998
The Last Deal – Sept 08, 1997
The New England Journal of Medicine
Off the Record – Avoiding the Pitfalls of Going Electronic – April 2018
Money and the Changing Culture of Medicine – Jan 2009
Keeping the Patient in the Equation – Humanism and Health Care Reform – Aug 2009
Untangling the Web – Patients, doctors, and the Internet – Mar 2010
The New Language of Medicine – Oct 2011
There is More to Life than Death – Dec 2012
Medical Taylorism – Jan 2016
Medical Taylorism, Lean, and Toyota. (Correspondence) – May 2016
The Power of Regret – Oct 2017
Physician Burnout, Interrupted – Jun 2020
American College of Physicians Internist
A doctor seeks out a concrete diagnosis – Jul 2014
A physician copes with chronic pain – Nov 2013
Earlier recognition may help outcomes in osteoarthritis – May 2013
Reflections from a physician who faced his mortality – May 2013
Metacognition and its impact on physician self-diagnosis – Oct 2012
Advance directives are the beginning of care, not the end – Jul 2012
Decisional conflict: Balancing risks, benefits for each patient – Apr 2012
Framing risks, benefits perilous for physicians and patients – Jan 2012
Attribution error results from a positive stereotype – May 2011
Priming to diagnose an atypical case, avoid representativeness – Aug 2011
Thinking about our thinking as physicians – Oct 2011
Seeing the whole diagnostic picture – Apr 2010
Attribution error confounds a diagnosis after colon cancer – Aug 2010
When patients don’t tell all: The diagnostic challenge – Oct 2010
Mindful medicine: Perils of diagnosing the physician-patient – Jan 2009
Meld intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic trap – Mar 2009
It’s just old age – or is it? Don’t be guided by stereotypes – May 2009
Unmasking the patient’s hidden agenda – Sept 2009
Uncertain diagnosis for pain leads a doctor to dig deeper – Nov 2009
Critical thinking leads to the right diagnosis – Jan 2008
Patient’s doubts about diagnosis prompt a second opinion – Mar 2008
Beware of ‘search satisfaction,’ a common cognitive error – May 2008
Don’t confuse correlation with causation – July 2008
Don’t let emotion impede the right diagnosis – Sept 2008
Anchoring errors ensue when diagnoses get lost in translation – Nov 2008