“An American Sickness”
I love Elisabeth Rosenthal’s work.
She’s a medical journalist (an MD, but no longer practicing) who wrote a brilliant series of articles on the high cost of healthcare for the New York Times a few years ago.
Now she has a book on the same topic. Because, of course, our healthcare system with its punishing costs for services, drugs and insurance has not improved. If anything, it’s worse.
As a physician, Dr. Rosenthal has experienced first hand the perverse incentives—illness being more profitable than health, after all—and lack of price transparency in our healthcare system. Her book … Continue reading
I just finished reading a really gripping and emotional story—
Don’t take health advice from celebrities
Even toddlers seem to be playing with smartphone and tablet apps, so why not make it educational as well as fun?
If you have Netflix, I highly recommend watching Michael Pollan’s new series, Cooked.
It was a nice surprise to see a celebrity use the power of social media to speak in favor of getting children vaccinated.
