The Day Like No Other -- Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 -- began as a day like any other. I was a 36-year-old internist working at a large hospital in Minneapolis, and I had patients to take care of. But when the day quickly became something else, I started taking notes....

Every year more than one million Americans find themselves in their local emergency room feeling like an elephant has plopped down on their chest. Heavy, suffocating chest pressure is one of the hallmark symptoms of coronary artery disease, our nation's number one killer, and so physicians take...

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...