The Pain of the Rebel Healthcare Worker

Because our healthcare system is so full of holes, it’s tempting to assume that all its participants are jaded by the push for expensive tests, surgery, and pharmaceuticals. Of course, that is a dangerous assumption. The system has many committed...

Low-Cost Health Improvement vs A Hungry System

On Saturday, I dropped by the farm in Lyme, NH, where I buy my raw milk. As the owner handed me a gallon jug, she immediately felt compelled to explain the fact that the container wasn’t cold. “I just milked her this morning,” she said. No...

Animal Tags for People: The Real Prize

My latest BusinessWeek.com column explores the intriguing business ties between the companies making radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and for implantation into people to track their medical...