Our health is going downhill: poor public health and poor attention to the social determinants

“Our health is going downhill” shouts a headline in the Kansas City Star , January 4, 2009. The local take o...

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Free speech, religious belief, and facts: how does it affect health?

T he massacre at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo was shocking and horrible, as are the massacres and atrocities that occur regularly with ...

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Belief vs. "truth": how people often make medical decisions

In a fascinating article in the “Medicine and Society” section of the New England Journal of Medicine, “Beyond belief—how people feel about ...

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The front cover of my book, soon to come out.

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Direct Primary Care, Scope of Practice, and the Health of the People

One of the relatively new and growing movements in family medicine is “direct primary care”, or DPC. The term seems to have a lot of differe...

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