On the deep crisis in American medicine - and the broad societal anger and cynicism it is driving

Healthcare is the place where scientific expertise meets lived experience most intimately. The problems have no easy answers, but we can all see for ourselves how badly the system is failing.

If a plane ticket to Florida cost $5,000 and a jet went down every day, would any of us “trust the science” from Boeing, United, and the Federal Aviation Administration?

A couple of weeks ago, one of my kids wound up in the emergency room for a minor but painful problem. The doctors prescribed ibuprofen while they tried to figure out how to treat it.

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