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Sally Satel, M.D.

Author of PC, M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

  • About the Author
  • Contact
  • Articles
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse
  • Bioethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Organ Policy
  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • Amicus Briefs
  • Appearances
  • Books
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Bioethics

‘Fraud in the Lab’ Review: Experiments in Doubt

Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2019

The Bioethics Dilemma

Pacific Standard Magazine, September 15, 2015

Dr. Sally Satel on why James Holmes (the Aurora movie theater killer) shouldn’t get the death penalty

Sally Satel and Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, August 6, 2015

Don’t Execute Schizophrenic Killers

Bloomberg, December 1, 2014

The True Impetus Behind Egg-Freezing

Forbes, October 21, 2014

The Other VA Scandal: Disability payments are making victims of veterans

Sally Satel and B. Christopher Frueh, National Review, August 25, 2014

Good News for Liars

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Slate, June 4, 2013

Are You Dead Yet?

The New Republic, May 15, 2012

Physician, Humanize Thyself

Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2010

Responses to Question from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Nuffield Council on Bioethics, July 7, 2010

The Limits of Bioethics: Where the profession ends and politics begins

Policy Review, February/March 2010

The Right (and Wrong) Answers

The New Republic, January 13, 2010

Clinical Trials, Wrapped in Red Tape

New York Times, August 7, 2009

The God Committee: Should criminals have equal access to scarce medical treatments?

Slate, June 17, 2008

What the Doctor Ordered

National Review Online, May 7, 2008

Transplant tourism: treating patients when they return to the U.S.

AMA Virtual Mentor, May 2, 2008

Sources of Medical Research Funding

Medical Progress Today, April 24, 2008

Responses to Questions from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on “Give and take? Human bodies in medicine and research”

Nuffield Council on Bioethics, July 7, 2007

The Kindness of Strangers: And the cruelty of some medical ethicists.

The Weekly Standard, May 29, 2006

Are Doctors Biased?

Sally Satel and Jonathan Klick, Policy Review, April/May 2006

Biased Doctors? Don’t rush to pull out the race card.

National Review, February 23, 2006

Political Science: Is the GOP the elephant in the laboratory?

The Weekly Standard, October 31, 2005

A Cautionary Tale

Tech Central Station, June 14, 2005

Good to Grow

The New York Times, June 8, 2005

Good to Grow (Unabridged Version)

The New York Times, June 8, 2005

An Infamy of One’s Own (Unabridged version of Where Were You on 1/14?)

Sally Satel and Hoff Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2005

Where Were You on 1/14?

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2005

Some Gene Research Just Isn’t Worth the Money

Sally Satel and Keith Humphreys, The New York Times, January 18, 2005

Some Gene Research Just Isn’t Worth the Money (Unabridged Version)

Sally Satel and Keith Humphreys, The New York Times, January 18, 2005

Science Fiction

The Weekly Standard, April 12, 2004

Insanity Goes Back on Trial

The New York Times, March 3, 2003

It’s Crazy to Execute the Insane

The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2002

‘You Dirty Rats’: Activists Jeopardize Biomedical Research

Tech Central Station, December 11, 2001

In Focus: Guest Editorial: Affirmative Action

Medscape, November 2001

Race Belongs in the Stem Cell Debate

Sally Satel and Jon Entine, The Washington Post, September 9, 2001

Letters to the Editor:Those Who Really Need Marijuana

The Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1997

Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Appearances

  • Discussing mental health and Uvalde Discussing mental health and Uvalde
  • Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization? Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?
  • Should human kidneys be bought and sold? Should human kidneys be bought and sold?
  • Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger
  • The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis
  • Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic? Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic?
  • TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions
  • The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media
  • A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment
  • A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics
  • Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it? Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it?
  • Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic
  • Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan
  • Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting? Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?
  • Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do? Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do?
  • Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel
  • Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis
  • What if you could legally sell your kidney? What if you could legally sell your kidney?
  • Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy
  • Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’ Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
  • Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
  • Hope for Organ Markets? Hope for Organ Markets?
  • The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel
  • Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do? Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
  • Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
  • After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain” After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
  • Compensating Organ Donors Compensating Organ Donors
  • When Altruism Isn’t Enough When Altruism Isn’t Enough
  • Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D. Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D.
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