Selected essays

Writing on health care delivery, payment, and the practice of medicine

The New Yorker

The Health-Care Industry’s Relationship Problems

First in a three-part series on the business of American health care

The New Yorker

Can Selling Insurance to Patients Transform Health Care?

The New Yorker

Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?

The Atlantic

The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine

Health Affairs Forefront

Why Alternative Payment Models Need Patient-Reported Trajectory Measures

The Washington Post

Waiting Room

On the backlog of medical care caused by the pandemic

The Yale Review

Medicine’s Innovation Problem

The New Yorker

The Doctor Will See You Onscreen

The New Yorker

Dr. Roboto

New England Journal of Medicine

A Differentiation Diagnosis — Specialization and the Medical Student