The squabbling generated by recently revised mammography screening guidelines showed that in the great American health care reform debate, physicians like myself are not always above the fray. In fact, we can sometimes be the fray.

Consider the American College of Radiology's official counterpoint, which began with the...

Substantive health care reform will only come with a cultural shift that recenters public expectations and puts the science of health care, and health care outcomes, back in charge

Science is what we use to keep from fooling ourselves.
-- Richard Feynman

On occasion a patient arrives in the...