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05/30/2023

My latest in Forbes is on "automation bias" and how easy it is for physicians to be wrongly swayed by artificial intelligence systems.

The machine does not always know where it’s going!

04/30/2023

My latest in Forbes is on AI and medicine, from a radiologist's perspective.

Four ways AI will change the practice of medicine. Mostly for the better!

02/28/2023

My latest Forbes piece covers some of the recent controversies over Covid-19, including natural immunity, the efficacy of mask mandates, and the "lab leak" hypothesis -- and what that means for the concepts of "consensus" and "misinformation".

Dissenting from a questionable “consensus” is not the same as spreading “misinformation.”

01/03/2023

ICYMI, my final Forbes piece of 2022, made it just under the wire!

In the words of Sarah Kliff, fax machines are “the cockroach of American medicine: hated by doctors and medical professionals but able to survive — even thrive — in a hostile environment.”

11/29/2022

My latest Forbes column is on the link between motorcycle rallies, fatalities, and increased organ donations.

Researchers have quantified the link between large motorcycle rallies, fatalities, and organ donations.

10/26/2022

Yes, some people are "mosquito magnets". That's one of the topics I cover in my latest Forbes piece.

Some interesting tidbits of recent legal and scientific health news

09/30/2022

Your body; your data. My latest in Forbes.

Federal law now gives patients faster access to medical test results, often before your physician sees them. Here's how best to exercise this right.

08/26/2022

My latest Forbes piece is now out.

Today hearing aids, maybe tomorrow insulin?

Congress could help lower health costs by allowing patients to purchase more medical devices and supplies without a prescription.

07/25/2022

My latest Forbes piece is now out -- discussing the thorny intersection of free speech, "misinformation", and medical licensure.

Instead of outlawing questionable ideas, combat bad ideas with better ideas.

06/30/2022

Stifling dissent with public health surveillance technology. My latest in today's Forbes.

A Covid-19 tracking system was misused in China to place “digital handcuffs” against protestors.

05/31/2022

My latest in Forbes, in which I release my inner physics geek! 🤓🤓🤓

The Bernoulli effect has real-life applications in safety and medicine.

04/26/2022

How traffic warning signs can create unintended -- and sometimes deadly -- consequences. My latest in Forbes.

How government behavioral “nudges” can backfire, sometimes fatally so.

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