Robert Pearl, M.D., Contributor

To better understand the root causes of professional misbehavior, underperformance and dissatisfaction in medicine, we’d we wise to remember, “It’s the culture, stupid.”

Medical information online is predominantly unregulated. As a doctor who has dealt firsthand with the consequences of medical misinformation, Dr. Pearl argues more must be done to police online pseudoscience.

New physicians and pro baseball players have more in common than you might think. They both make these same four career errors.

After five years as a Forbes healthcare contributor with 5 million clicks, Dr. Robert Pearl examines the reader data to make seven bold healthcare predictions.

Financial incentives always change physician behavior, but rarely produce the desired behavior. Dr. Pearl offers two examples of this axiom. One made doctors angry. The other killed 20,000 patients.

In season one of the “Fixing Healthcare” podcast, six guests shared their best ideas to transform American medicine. Now you decide which solutions stand apart.

Bold, juicy and salacious, the top healthcare headlines of 2018 paved the way for bad news in the year ahead.

Another year, another set of scandals making headlines in American medicine. Dr. Robert Pearl shares his cure for conflicts of interest.

In his last public interview before leaving Geisinger Health for Google, Dr. Feinberg appeared on the monthly podcast ‘Fixing Healthcare.’ Using his comments and my research as background, here are five healthcare opportunities Google might pursue.

As predicted, Republicans kept the Senate majority while Democrats wrested control of the House. This congressional split bodes poorly for the 71% of voters who labeled healthcare as “very important” in determining their vote.