For STAT News, I started writing the Workup on 9/2/25. This column dissects the promises and pitfalls of medicine, using cardiology as a lens to examine the state of American healthcare.
Columns:
– Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature, 10/13/25
– Make statins available without a prescription, 9/2/25
Prior freelance work:
– Tariffs will make it even more expensive for Americans to eat healthy, 3/10/25
– RFK Jr. and MAHA should champion a Marshall Plan for obesity, 11/25/24
– Compounded semaglutide is an ill-defined public health crisis, 9/13/24
– Testing medical students is big business. I see it as extortion., 3/20/20
– Medicare for all? Not for us!, 10/27/17 (co-authored)
– Take politics out of healthcare before reforming it, 11/21/16 (co-authored)
– Do ethics fall by the wayside when doctors become pundits?, 10/5/16
My freelance writing has been published in:
– The Solution to Soaring Drug Prices? A Public Option for Pills., 2/27/20 (republished at Route Fifty, Salon, and Doximity Op-Med)
– The Uncertain Future of Safety-Net Hospitals, 9/26/19
– The Worrisome Rise of Direct-to-Consumer Medicine, 3/28/19 (republished at Fast Company, Daily Beast, and NPR)
– A Medical Student in Gaza Tells Us What She is Seeing, 11/1/23
– What America May Be Getting Wrong About Colonoscopies, 10/24/22
– The Chilling Fate of a Nurse Who Accidentally Killed a Patient, 4/26/22
– Dr. Venture Capital, 3/2/22
– Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed, 9/7/21
– What It’s Like to Be a Doctor in Unvaccinated America, 7/27/21
– The US Needs to Stop Hoarding Vaccines Immediately, 3/12/21
– Why Obese People Should Get COVID-19 Vaccine Priority, 11/30/20
– Many Medical Students Are Willing to Go to the Front Lines. But We Need Pay and Protection., 4/2/20
– The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students., 11/29/18
– Improving Diversity in Med School Needs to Start Well Before Matriculation, 8/22/18
– FIFA's Rule Changes Won't Solve Soccer's Concussion Problem, 6/14/18
– Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?, 12/7/17
– We Have to Ration Health Care, 10/13/17
– America Should Adapt New Zealand’s Method of Handling Medical Malpractice Cases, 7/25/17
– Netflix’s ‘Diagnosis’ Shows What Doctor Visits May Look Like in the Future, 10/1/19
– Why Do We Have Health Insurance Companies Anyway? , 10/13/17
– Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids Should Pay a 'Sin Tax', 5/10/17
– Making College Free Would Save Lives–And Money, 3/17/17
– Trump is Ruining Our Health on a Global Scale Now, 2/1/17
– The vision forward on health care should be bipartisan, 8/23/17 (co-authored)
– How Trump counties should instruct health reform, 4/17/17 (co-authored)
– R.I. may need to reopen Memorial, 3/18/20
– Barring panhandlers solves nothing, 3/5/17
– Trump wrong on Clinton Foundation, 9/3/16
– St. Louis Should Have Starred in the Second Presidential Debate, 10/17/16 (co-authored)
– Brexit Foreshadows America's Political Future, 6/28/16
– What Bernie Sanders Isn't Telling You About Single-Payer Healthcare, 1/28/16
– As Ebola Leaves Africa, Why are Resources Leaving Too?, 10/22/15
– Memo to the GOP: Anti-Science Rhetoric is Ignorant, Not Conservative, 9/28/15
– How America Should Fix FIFA, 6/18/15
– The Rise of Homo Auxilium?, 1/31/15
– Seeking Kairos: How We Need to Rethink College, 9/11/14