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Articles

Slate
• "The Nightmare of Night Float: Is an Ignorant Doctor Really Better than a Tired One?" July 30, 2008.

NPR
• "Naps For Medical Residents May Be Too Risky" March 19, 2009.

The Los Angeles Times
• "When the Problem is Munchhausen's" April 14, 2008.

The New England Journal of Medicine (Registration required)
• "From All Walks of Life — Nontraditional Medical Students and the Future of Medicine" July 17, 2008.
• "The Demise of the Physical Exam" February 9, 2006.
• "The Economics of ICDs" December 9, 2004.
• "House Calls" November 18, 2004.
• "Retrospective: The Artificial Heart" February 5, 2004.
  

The New York Times
• Room for Debate: Are Doctors Too Quick to Cut? "The Do-Something Mentality" February 9, 2011.
• "Out of Camelot, Knights in White Coats Lose Way" January 31, 2011.
• "No Matter What, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits" March 29, 2010.
• "One Thing After Another" January 22, 2010.
• "To Curb Repeat Hospital Stays, Pay Doctors" November 30, 2009.
• "A Doctor by Choice, a Businessman by Necessity" July 6, 2009.
• "Referral System Turns Patients Into Commodities" May 25, 2009.
• "Physicians’ Tales" April 17, 2009.
• "The Instincts to Trust Are Usually the Patient's" January 5, 2009.
• "In a Eulogy, Finding a Person, Not a Patient" October 27, 2008.
• "The Pitfalls of Linking Doctors' Pay to Performance" September 8, 2008.
• "Eyes Bloodshot, Doctors Vent Their Discontent" June 17, 2008.
• "Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason" March 11, 2008.
• "Explain a Medical Error? Sure. Apologize Too?" January 1, 2008.
• "Between Comfort and Care, a Blurry Line," September 18, 2007.
• "Break a Confidence? Never. Well, Hardly Ever," May 29, 2007.
• "A Patient's Demands Versus a Doctor's Convictions," April 3, 2007.
• "He Wasn't Thinking Straight. So How Do You Get Through?" July 11, 2006.
• "Magical Medicine on TV," July 19, 2005.
• "A Doctor Brings His Family to the Delivery Room," March 15, 2005.
• "On a Matter of Life or Death, a Patient Is Overruled," October 5, 2004.
• "Out of the Blue, a Lightning Bolt to the Heart," February 10, 2004.
• "That Ounce Of Prevention Grew Too Big," December 2, 2003.
• "The Mystery Of Fever, Unsolved," August 26, 2003.
• "A Malady That Mimics Depression," July 15, 2003.
• "Questions The Doctor Never Asked," June 17, 2003.
• "Buying Time: Doctors Debate the Ethics of Care and Cost," May 6, 2003.
• "The Right to Make a Bad Decision," March 4, 2003.
• "Trial by Fire, And by Fear, In the I.C.U.," February 4, 2003.
• "Post-Mortem Of a Death So Puzzling," January 14, 2003.
• "Playing Ambulance Roulette," December 3, 2002.
• "The Mystery of Syndrome X," September 23, 2002.
• "Beyond the Script: What Happens When the Heroine Faints," July 9, 2002.
• "Advice Rejoins Consent," July 2, 2002.
• "Calling In the Pain Team, Specialists in Suffering," June 23, 2002.
• "Learning to Cope When Hospital Patients Turn Violent," March 12, 2002.
• "Restoring The Physical To the Exam," January 29, 2002.
• "Comedy, Tragedy And Coping," January 15, 2002.
• "They Had Everything They Needed, Except Survivors to Treat," September 18, 2001.
• "Life and Death Stakes in the Numbers Game," September 11, 2001.
• "Hidden in the World of Medicine, Discrimination and Stereotypes," June 19, 2001.
• "As Technology Improves, More People Breathe With Machines," April 24, 2001.
• "Finding Cancer Drugs in the Most Unlikely Places," April 10, 2001.
• "Journeys From Death To Life," December 12, 2000.
• "Residents Discover A Handy Helpmate," October 25, 2000.
• "Saving the Heart Can Sometimes Mean Losing the Memory," September 19, 2000.
• "More Fans For Drugs That Fight Cholesterol," September 5, 2000.
• "Teaching Hospitals Too Busy for Curiosity," September 5, 2000.
• "From a Pea-Size Lump, Years of Uncertainty," August 8, 2000.
• "A Remedy Not Worth The Pain," July 11, 2000.
• "First Battle Of Cancer: Deep Denial," June 13, 2000.
• "Even Doctor-Patient Relationships Can Be Dysfunctional," April 25, 2000.
• "Medical Residents, Yes, but Workers, Too," April 18, 2000.
• "When Decisions Can Mean Life or Death," January 4, 2000.
• "Doctors' Unsolved Mysteries: When Fevers Have No Known Cause," November 30, 1999.
• "For Immigrant Drivers, More Than the Taxicab Gets Shaken and Strained," October 20, 1999.
• "Taking Care of Nurses, Before It's Too Late," October 5, 1999.
• "First, Do No Harm: When Patients Suffer," August 10, 1999.
• "When the Truth Is as Elusive as the Cure," June 29, 1999.
• "Doctor Marries Doctor: Good Medicine," March 23, 1999.
• "When Rules for Better Care Exact Their Own Cost," January 5, 1999.
• "When a Stay in Intensive Care Unhinges the Mind," December 8, 1998.
• "Both Home and Prison, Leprosy Site May Shut," June 23, 1998.

The New York Times Magazine
• "The Cancer Vaccine," December 14, 2003.
• "When Doctors Slam the Door," March 16, 2003.
  Reprinted in: Writing from Sources, Bedford/St. Martin's, New York, 2007;
  Also reprinted as "Cardiology in Crisis" in The Wilson Quarterly, June, 2003.
• "Over-The-Counter Headache," January 12, 2003.
• "The Fail-Safe Heart Procedure," December 15, 2002.
• "The Video Pill," December 15, 2002.
• "Jolts of Anxiety," May 5, 2002.
• "Counting," September 23, 2001.
  Reprinted in: The World Trade Center Attack, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, 2003.
• "Life Out of Balance," May 6, 2001.