Robert Pearl, M.D., Contributor

As patients have become more reliant on middlemen and their services, American healthcare has developed what Dr. Robert Pearl calls the ‘middleman mindset.’

American healthcare is standing in the path of the perfect storm, which Dr. Robert Pearl estimates will arrive in less than two years. He offers three immediate fixes to slow the damage and buy our nation time for bigger solutions.

One company is dutifully abiding by an old, unwritten rule of health technology. The other is poised to rewrite the healthcare rulebook altogether.

As Covid-19 concerns wane, American healthcare now stands in direct path of the perfect storm. Three “mega forces” will combine to create a deadly and costly medical disaster.

“Am I safe or am I in danger?” That’s the root of most Covid-19 questions Dr. Robert Pearl receives from listeners of his podcast Coronavirus: The Truth. This Q&A addresses some of the most common questions of late.

In the wake of recent decisions, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has been called radical, hypocritical, even draconian. All that may be true, but what worries me most as a physician is how quickly the highest court in the land has become unsc…

This article, part of a series on breaking the unwritten rules of healthcare, details how biopharma companies continue to ratchet up drug prices and generate outsized profit margins year after year.

Drug company press releases would lead a reasonable person to conclude that a pharmaceutical revolution is underway—that the drug industry is ushering in a brave new era of medical advances. The truth is far less flattering.

Even as Americans begin to move on from the Covid-19 pandemic, those who get sick still try to avoid spreading the virus. They stay home and avoid others. Don’t get used to it. This, too, will pass.

Americans are moving on from Covid-19, whether or not health-policy experts believe they should.