This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.