Jonathan Staloff is a family medicine resident and can be reached on Twitter @jonstaloff.

How fee-for-service shapes your doctor’s decisions

Policy
December 13, 2024

An excerpt from Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It. Copyright © 2024, Wolters Kluwer.

Clinical case

Jessica is a 67-year-old woman having her very first visit with her new primary care clinician, Dr. Jackson. Jessica is accompanied by her husband, Daniel, and comes in with recent laboratory results from her previous clinician, whom she could no longer see because her clinic stopped accepting Jessica’s …

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How fee-for-service shapes your doctor’s decisions

How President Biden’s quest for a public option mirrors LBJ’s passage of Medicare and Medicaid 

Policy
January 25, 2021

The health care circumstances of President Biden’s ascent to the Oval Office are unprecedented. He is inheriting responsibility for the American response to a pandemic that has taken more than 400,000 American lives and will take office just months after the Supreme Court heard a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which if repealed will threaten the insurance status of tens of …

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How President Biden’s quest for a public option mirrors LBJ’s passage of Medicare and Medicaid 

The most loving thing: end of life and saying goodbye

Conditions
March 6, 2019

“Grandma fell and we’re in the emergency room. She’s very distressed and does not look good. I’m going to put the doctor on the phone.”

I could hear my mother’s voice strain on the other end of the phone line as I braced myself for my conversation with the emergency department physician.

The emergency physician told me that though the work-up was still developing, my grandmother was in respiratory distress, and that …

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The most loving thing: end of life and saying goodbye