patient advocacy

As an unpaid healthcare writer and patient advocate, I’ve written for 27 years on opioid prescribing, pai

For years, stories have been published about the shortcomings of the American healthcare system, especially as it relates to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum care.

As an advocate for people in pain, I have long been a critic of opioid prescribing guidelines of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in 2016 and revis

Dr. House, the fictional diagnostician played by Hugh Laurie, on the Fox TV series "House," was often wrong, never in doubt and always chose the more invasive treatment.

You may have recently read about a teacher who was hospitalized and treated in Texas with four stents for an often fatal type of heart attack.

It is time to question the boondoggle that is and will be the implementation of the World Health Organization-generated International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit just delivered another blow to a rather epic play by pharmaceutical giant Allergan to game the patent system.

It was such a privilege and honor for me to be invited by the incomparable Suzi Abrams and Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Ne

We all tend to do certain things because “it’s just what you do” or out of passive acceptance of conventional wisdom. In the medical realm especially, it’s always important to reassess the why.