Selected writing
Lay Press (in chronological order)
How Lloyd Austin's prostate cancer surgery led to hospitalization, The Washington Post
Will SEPTA’s new artificial intelligence security system racially profile riders? The Philadelphia Inquirer (with Helayne Drell)
Who is Liable when AI Kills? Scientific American (with George Maliha)
How the Pandemic Made Algorithms Go Haywire. Slate (with Amol Navathe)
To Spur Growth in AI, We Need a New Approach to Legal Liability. Harvard Business Review (with George Maliha, Sara Gerke, and Glenn Cohen)
Four Ways to Fix the Vaccine Rollout: Write Better Algorithms. The New York Times (with Amol Navathe)
A Nudge Helps Doctors Bring Up End-of-Life Issues with Their Dying Cancer Patients. STAT (with Chris Manz and Mitesh Patel)
Understanding One Challenge in Cutting Health Care Costs. Harvard Business Review (with Zeke Emanuel, Amol Navathe, Justin Bekelman, Emily Roesing, & Connor Boyle)
I'm an Oncologist Who Treats Prostate Cancer. For Many Patients and their Manhood, the Cure Seems Worse than the Disease. The Washington Post
Most Patients Want to Die at Home, but Many Land in Hospitals Getting Unwanted Care. The Washington Post
New Cancer Therapies Offer Great Hope, but There Can be Surprising Complications. The Washington Post
Cancer Patients are Eager to use Immunotherapy but Sometimes Chemotherapy is the Far Better Option. The Washington Post
Making Predictive Analytics a Routine Part of Patient Care. Harvard Business Review (with Ziad Obermeyer and David Bates)
When Patients and Doctors Disagree About End-of-Life Care. The Washington Post
Medscape
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