Second Opinion

If AI can outperform two radiologists reading your mammogram, why is it still sitting on the sidelines?

We've spent decades arguing about whether government-run healthcare could ever work in America — but one system has been quietly proving it can. The answer might surprise you.

Our healthcare system often punishes behavior it doesn’t understand—and trauma is at the center of that misunderstanding.

If you've ever left a doctor's office nodding along and then lain awake at 3 am realizing you understood almost nothing — this might be for you.

The same children once labeled deficient are often highly capable adults — if they survive a system that misjudges them early. Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence, but everything to do with how badly we teach reading and judge those who struggle.

“ A built bed is a filled bed” – why in American healthcare, more supply doesn't lower costs, it raises them.

New research suggests that expanding nurses’ roles in our hospitals could be one of the smartest — and most urgent — steps we can take for the future of American healthcare.

The President says TrumpRx will give Americans the lowest drug prices in the world — but a closer look reveals a much more limited program that will leave most patients exactly where they started.

One in four Americans die before age 70 — not because we lack longevity supplements, but because we've abandoned the basic primary care that keeps people alive.

Medical Care is often not enough. Doulas are bringing an ancient practice back to modern dying—one family at a time.

Super Bowl medical ads use celebrity endorsements and fear tactics to promote disease screening - not primarily for public health, but to expand the patient pool for new, expensive treatments.

Most back pain doesn't require surgery—so why are we spending two billion dollars over a three-year period on it?

Every medical injection you've ever received was safety-tested using the blue blood of a 450-million-year-old creature — and we're finally questioning whether that's worth their survival.

My patient Paul has been trying to stop his antidepressants for months, and what's keeping him trapped reveals a truth the medical community has been slow to acknowledge.

The flu is surging, vaccine recommendations just got gutted, and somehow we're being told to trust butter over science—here's why you should be worried.

When two of my patients faced serious health crises, their unexpected response taught me something profound about the science and practice of gratitude—lessons worth carrying into the new year.

What one culture calls mental illness, others call a divine gift. 

The President's 'routine' MRI that cost $3,000 and no doctor recommends is a perfect example of how too much healthcare can be just as harmful as too little.

When veterinarians vaccinating goats in India discovered women were dying in childbirth along migration routes, the solution came from recognizing that herders already knew how to save lives—just not their own.

You're in the exam room.  The person in the white coat says they're a doctor.  But what kind of doctor?  A federal court just decided that training matters more than free speech.

The pap smear has saved countless lives, but it's also dreaded by millions of women. Now there's an alternative that's easier, more private, and just as accurate.

What happens when the world's richest country tells its most vulnerable newcomers they're on their own for food?

Medicare Advantage covers more than half of seniors, but is it costing taxpayers billions and offering little advantage?

How did a pain pill that is only moderately effective and has murky side effects become America's 5th most prescribed drug?

A shortsighted H-1B fee increase will eliminate the international doctors millions of underserved Americans depend on, deepening healthcare inequality.