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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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Public Health

Don’t Forget the Immunocompromised

The Dispatch, January 27, 2022

This Will Make Us All Freer

Common Sense with Bari Weiss, September 22, 2021

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

Washington Post, May 17, 2021

Race for the Vaccine

Persuasion, November 16, 2020

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

Persuasion, August 23, 2020

The Public-Health Establishment Has Diminished Its Credibility

National Review, June 10, 2020

Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay

Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020

Inside the Controversy over ‘the Chinese Virus’

National Review, March 23, 2020

Feds Owe the Public ‘Corrective Statements’ on Vaping

Sally Satel and Guy Bentley, Real Clear Health, December 4, 2017

The Addiction Doctor Isn’t in

RealClear Health, November 20, 2016

What to do about heroin addicts who keep OD’ing

New York Post, September 15, 2016

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

Washington Post, July 15, 2016

Treatment Alone Won’t Stop Heroin Epidemic

Bloomberg, November 13, 2015

Why Public Health Advocates Care More About Heroin Addicts Than Smokers

Forbes, September 9, 2015

Double Standard: E-Cigarettes Vs. Medical Marijuana

Forbes, July 30, 2015

Hospitals aren’t the VA’s only scandal

The Boston Globe, June 15, 2014

Brain Science Not Ready to Replace Mad Men

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Bloomberg, June 2, 2013

Humanitarian and financial motives intertwine all the time

Modern Medicne, March 21, 2013

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

New York Times Room for Debate, July 8, 2010

Weird Science

Forbes, December 8, 2009

Tempest In A C-Cup

Forbes, November 25, 2009

Clinical Trials, Wrapped in Red Tape

New York Times, August 7, 2009

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

The Weekly Standard, May 29, 2006

The IOM Report: Too Quick to Diagnose Bias

Sally Satel and Jonathan Klick, Perspective and Biology in Medicine, Volume 48, Number 1 Supplement, Winter 2005

Where’s the Choice?

National Review, August 22, 2005

Good to Grow

The New York Times, June 8, 2005

Good to Grow (Unabridged Version)

The New York Times, June 8, 2005

An Infantile Policy

Tech Central Station, June 7, 2005

Just the Facts, Ma’am

NationalReviewOnline, April 12, 2005

Data do not support ban on silicone breast implants

USA Today, April 11, 2005

Bread and Shelter, Yes. Psychiatrists, No.

The New York Times, March 25, 2005

TCS Convention on Biodiversity Coverage: Diminishing Biodiverse Returns

Tech Central Station, February 16, 2005

Race and medicine can mix without prejudice

Medical Progress Today, December 10, 2004

A Case of Colorblind Care

The Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2004

WHO’s Dubious Bag of HIV Medicines

Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2004

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

Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2004

Don’t Despair over Disparities

Sally Satel and Jonathan Klick, The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2004

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

AEI Press, January 2004

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

Forbes, October 8, 2002

I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor (Erratum?)

The New York Times, May 5, 2002

Racist Doctors? Don’t Believe The Media Hype

The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2002

Menopause Envy: Not all guys have changed since September 11

The Women's Quarterly, Winter 2002

Public Health? Forget It; Cosmic Issues Beckon

The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2001

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

Policy Review, December 2001

In Focus: Guest Editorial: Affirmative Action

Medscape, November 2001

The Newest Feminist Icon—a Killer Mom

The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2001

Does Inequality Make You Sick? The dangers of the new public health crusade

Sally Satel and Theodore R. Marmor, The Weekly Standard, July 16, 2001

Mommy Undearest

Slate, July 3, 2001

Feminism Is Bad for Women’s Health Care

The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2001

The indoctrinologists are coming

The Atlantic Monthly, January 2001

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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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