October 12, 2021

Your health privacy: What government giveth, it can taketh away

Suddenly, your health is everybody’s business. If you have the misfortune of living in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, where you can no longer enter a restaurant, museum, or concert hall without proof of...

April 7, 2021

Presumption of Guilt: Physicians Blamed for Racial Health Disparities

Efforts to raise awareness about “implicit racial bias” or “structural racism” in health care are forcing some doctors to speak out -- carefully.  In March, an editor at JAMA, the Journal of the American Medi...