Before we get to what spurs useful innovation in medicine, we might talk for a minute about what inhibits it. A number of things come to mind, all of which I have experienced in my career: 1....

The choice of Congressmen Paul Ryan has injected a new wrinkle into the Health Care Reform debate: Medicare. The Todd Akin flap has injected others, but let’s take this one wrinkle at a time. Ironically this now...

This column will resemble the letter I used to write home every summer from camp explaining to my parents why I had not written in some time. It wasn’t always because I was having too much fun....