Health

A respect for property rights will become all the more important in the age of "designer babies" and "gene editing."

Doctors are increasingly asked to follow decision rules, guidelines, and “evidence-based” algorithms. Is that the right approach to take care of patients? Are cognitive errors over-emphasized in healthcare?

Are bioethicists too complacent about their grasp of economics? A fascinating discussion with Dr. Tom Koch.

Grow the scope of government and expand the weapons of the state that can be deployed against its political enemies.

Dr. Lee Gross is a pioneer in the most hopeful trend in health care today: the Direct Primary Care movement.

Those pushing Medicare for All rely on the presumption that it will generate huge administrative efficiencies. But they greatly underestimate the program's real administrative cost.

Patients come in all sizes and shapes, and with varying tolerance for complications and risk. Is it plausible that a single dosing regimen can optimize treatment for everybody?

The reform of medical education is a usually boring conversation that needs its own reform. The discussion we have on this episode does just that.

We revisit the question of brain death, this time with a more practical focus. What should doctors tell families of patients who fulfill neurological criteria for brain death?