by Lissa Rankin | May 3, 2018 | Mental Health, Physical Health
The Western health care system is broken. Nobody can dispute this. This doesn’t mean Western medicine hasn’t made miraculous strides in treating acute trauma, saving lives during emergencies like heart attacks and strokes, preventing and treating bacterial and viral...
by Lissa Rankin | Mar 20, 2017 | Physical Health
When the British Medical Journal reported in May of 2016 that preventable medical error is the #3 cause of death in the United States, my mentor Rachel Naomi Remen, MD and I co-wrote an op-ed piece that we submitted to the New York Times. We thought this was big news...
by Lissa Rankin | Jun 10, 2010 | Physical Health
I have a confession to make. Four years ago, I was calling you the “Pod People,” because I felt so traumatized by the behavior of other doctors. When I quit practicing medicine around that time, I wanted to have nothing to do with doctors. I called myself a...
