Public Health – Sally Satel, M.D.

Sally Satel, M.D.

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

Medscape Gets Smoked

Mass General Brigham Puts Antiracism Ahead of Their Patients’ Health

A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok

“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

Don’t Forget the Immunocompromised

This Will Make Us All Freer

Vaccines probably don’t work on me. So I must rely on others to beat covid-19.

Race for the Vaccine

The Hypocritical Oath: Doctors should not pretend that they are experts in how society should be run.

The Public-Health Establishment Has Diminished Its Credibility

Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay

Inside the Controversy over ‘the Chinese Virus’

Feds Owe the Public ‘Corrective Statements’ on Vaping

The Addiction Doctor Isn’t in

What to do about heroin addicts who keep OD’ing

What’s the best way to battle the expanding Zika epidemic?

Treatment Alone Won’t Stop Heroin Epidemic

Why Public Health Advocates Care More About Heroin Addicts Than Smokers

Double Standard: E-Cigarettes Vs. Medical Marijuana

Hospitals aren’t the VA’s only scandal

Brain Science Not Ready to Replace Mad Men

Humanitarian and financial motives intertwine all the time

Should More Veterans Get P.T.S.D. Benefits?

Weird Science

Tempest In A C-Cup

Clinical Trials, Wrapped in Red Tape

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

The IOM Report: Too Quick to Diagnose Bias

Where’s the Choice?

Good to Grow

Good to Grow (Unabridged Version)

An Infantile Policy

Just the Facts, Ma’am

Data do not support ban on silicone breast implants

Bread and Shelter, Yes. Psychiatrists, No.

TCS Convention on Biodiversity Coverage: Diminishing Biodiverse Returns

Race and medicine can mix without prejudice

A Case of Colorblind Care

WHO’s Dubious Bag of HIV Medicines

WHO’s Dubious Bag of HIV Medicines (Unabridged Version)

Don’t Despair over Disparities

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data

Kumbayah Medicine: Why is the government paying for research into wacky alternative treatments?

I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor (Erratum?)

Racist Doctors? Don’t Believe The Media Hype

Menopause Envy: Not all guys have changed since September 11

Public Health? Forget It; Cosmic Issues Beckon

Medicine’s Race Problem (This article now appears in The Best American Science Writing 2002 edited by Matt Ridley, Ecco/Harper Collins)

In Focus: Guest Editorial: Affirmative Action