Analyzing the 2014 and 2016 Health and Retirement Study, we measure the extent to which older adults experience person-centered care, and how receipt of person-centered care affects overall health care satisfaction and service utilization. More
State and national scorecards grade health care providers' work. No scorecard exists for safety-net providers caring for Medicaid patients. More
I once stopped taking some of the pills I needed to fight non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. That has helped me understand my "nonadherent" patients. More
Too many Native women are dying due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth – deaths that should be preventable with the right intervention and care. More
In the mountains of North Carolina, black women are fighting a national health care crisis by helping each other have healthier pregnancies. More
I still remember the first time I said those three little words. Growing up in a loving Welsh family, I’d heard them said many times. But the first time they roll off your tongue will always be different. You try to choose your moment, but sometimes the words take you, and the listener, by surprise. If “I love you” are the three most important words in life, then “I don’t know” are the three most important in medicine. They’re also the most underused. Their power comes from admitting that doctors don’t, and can’t, know everything.
The catch-cancer-early-save-a-life trope is a bit misleading: the benefit of some tests is smaller than I had initially thought. Say 1,000 women have biennial mammograms between the ages of 50 and 74. Those 12,000 mammograms would prevent seven deaths from breast cancer. Yearly PSA testing among 1,000 men between the ages of 55 and 69 would lead to one to two fewer deaths from prostate cancer. Yet many of these patients are wary when I broach the idea of stopping screening. More