Keith J. Loud, MD, MSc (@LoudKJ) is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company). The basic structure of the American health care system, in which most people
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company) and is jointly authored by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. Long after
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company). Congressional Republicans have recently revived efforts to overhaul malpractice laws, including capping certain
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2016, The New York Times Company). I’ve become somewhat known for medical myth-busting (having been a co-author of three
I admit that I’d heard on the news that a two-year-old child killed himself with a gun from his mom’s purse in Indiana this week.
The Medscape Malpractice Report (2015) is one of the most entertaining reads I’ve had in a while. Here’s a gem I picked from the results:
A lot of people are sending me this article from the WSJ: A 3-year-old girl with Type 2 diabetes, one of the youngest people to
For those of you who wonder, it’s stories like this that keep Marceline-with-fire-eyes as my Twitter avatar: In Texas, private insurance companies are not required to
I don’t want to lecture, but I feel like this has to be said. As of this week, 45 children have died of influenza-related illness
I’ve heard that Twitter has been abuzz this week with pics of nasty school lunches. As if in response, JAMA Pediatrics has a study looking
As a resident, I saw more than one case of suspected Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Munchausen Syndrome, named after Baron Munchausen who supposedly told many tall tales
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