Making A List and Checking It Twice

By MERRILL GOOZNER Allow me to call readers attention to an article in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that calls on medical specialty societies to make lists of the five most...

A Randomized Trial of Niceness in the ER and Other Stories

By BOB WACHTER One of the great joys of a life in academic medicine is the opportunity to work with lots of very smart people. But one regret is that there is something about academia that tends to...

What a Group to be In

Per the Health at a Glance Chart Set, Powerpoint, available here:All OECD countries have achieved universal or near-universal health care coverage, except Turkey, Mexico and the United StatesAnd it's...

The US Media May Love Him, But the Brits Tell the Truth

The King is Gone, But He's Not Forgotten

Paul Samuelson, 94 mostly-glorious years.And if you think he wasn't doing much recently, check out the two-part interview with Connor Clarke—The Atlantic's real economics expert—here and...