In 2016, I joined the American Medical Association as manager of physician communications.

My principal duty in that role is to serve as editor of news stories that are published on the AMA website. These articles also are featured in the AMA Morning Rounds email newsletter, which reaches more than 250,000 subscribers five days a week, and AMA social media accounts that together have more than 1.3 million followers.

Here is a complete archive of my bylined work for the site.

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Nov. 18, 2019:

• How border conditions threaten our nation’s decency, health

Nov. 14, 2019:

• Google-Ascension deal comes as concerns rise on use of health data
• New research links hard-to-use EHRs and physician burnout

Nov. 8, 2019:

• Confusion prevails on 2020 Medicare supplement plan changes

Nov. 5, 2019:

• Federal law cripples telehealth in Medicare. New bill changes that.

AMA Moving Medicine Magazine, fall 2019 issue:

• Sharing a bond of service
• Finding the power of his voice

Nov. 1, 2019:

• 8 prior authorization terms that drive every doctor crazy

Oct. 29, 2019:

• How a presidential order threatens the physician-led care team

Oct. 24, 2019:

• 4 disability insurance details physicians often overlook

Oct. 22, 2019:

• 90% who need substance-use disorder treatment don’t get it

Oct. 21, 2019:

• How IMGs have changed the face of American medicine

Oct. 17, 2019:

• Surprise medical bills: Physicians want market-based fixes

Oct. 8, 2019:

• Why the AMA’s standing up for LGBTQ rights in the Supreme Court

Oct. 4, 2019:

• How to improve screening for social determinants of health

Sept. 27, 2019:

• $370,000 in AMA grants will help drive rigorous med ed innovations

Sept. 24, 2019:

• Why it’s time to pull the plug on e-cigarette ads

Sept. 20, 2019:

• What doctors must know about the vaping crisis

Sept, 18, 2019:

• Title X gag rule: What’s on the line in upcoming oral arguments

Sept. 16, 2019:

• New immigration policy endangers patients needing life-saving care

Sept. 13, 2019:

• How to fix surprise billing without impeding access to care

Sept. 10, 2019:

• Court blocks law that would force physicians to mislead patients

Sept. 6, 2019:

• 6 new digital health CPT codes that you should know about
• Michigan outlaws flavored e-cigs as vaping illnesses spread

Sept. 5, 2019:

• How CVS-Aetna case puts regulators on notice

Aug. 27, 2019:

• Grants will help residents displaced by record hospital closure

Aug. 22, 2019:

• New BRCA recommendations: What primary care doctors must know

Aug. 21, 2019:

• Proposal would roll back LGBTQ protections. That’s an awful idea.

Aug. 13, 2019:

• How AMA follows science to be powerful voice on today’s top issues

Aug. 7, 2019:

• Surprise billing: 4 points to raise with your reps during recess

AMA Moving Medicine Magazine, summer 2019 issue:

• A quest to never waste a step

June 28, 2019:

• E-prescribing controlled substances: Here’s why the clicks add up

June 25, 2019:

• Doctors battle state law that forces them to mislead patients

June 13, 2019:

• Highlights from the 2019 AMA Annual Meeting

June 11, 2019:

• Physicians: The ACA should be strengthened, not abandoned
• AMA principles will further gender equity among physicians

June 10, 2019:

• Time to scrutinize PBMs’ outsized role in Rx decision-making

June 6, 2019:

• Doctors make progress on opioids, call on policymakers to do more

June 4, 2019:

• What’s at stake in this week’s CVS-Aetna merger hearing

May 21, 2019:

• AMA: Regulate network adequacy to stop surprise medical bills

April 30, 2019:

• Wearables improve post-op recovery when every step counts

April 26, 2019:

• How the CDC’s opioid prescribing guidance went astray

April 17, 2019:

• 5 reasons why physicians should use social media professionally

AMA Moving Medicine Magazine, spring 2019 issue:

• Recognizing the patterns of truth
• Digital designs for the age of evidence

March 28, 2019:

• 5 keys for physicians unwinding contractual arrangements

Jan. 11, 2019:

• 8 physician advocacy wins that set the stage for 2019
• Long-term care funding for doctors: Do you know these 5 options?

Jan. 10, 2019:

• Digital health funding hits $8.1 billion. How to spend it wisely.

Dec. 28, 2018:

• Liked, loved, shared: What got physicians talking this year

Dec. 20, 2018:

• Controversial ACA ruling: 4 things physicians should know
• Talking firearms in the exam room: 3 cases where it matters

Dec. 5, 2018:

• Our 10 most popular stories of 2018

Nov. 30, 2018:

• 4 reasons why the AMA’s website has a new look and feel

Nov. 20, 2018:

• What your patients must know about direct-to-consumer lab tests

Nov. 16, 2018:

• Highlights from the 2018 AMA Interim Meeting

Nov. 11, 2018:

• How physicians should approach hard calls involving child patients

Oct. 11, 2018:

• 10 ways the new opioids bill could help address the epidemic

Sept. 27, 2018:

• 5 reasons to read the surgeon general’s opioid epidemic report

Sept. 18, 2018:

• Proposed 2019 Medicare QPP rule: Top 7 things doctors should know

Sept. 13, 2018:

• Avoid these missteps to slash your medical coding audit risk

Sept. 7, 2018:

• Does your practice have compliant coding systems?

Aug. 24, 2018:

• HHS should withdraw proposed family-planning gag rule

Aug. 14, 2018:

• 8 medical coding mistakes that could cost you

Aug. 3, 2018:

• DOJ should block CVS-Aetna merger: Calif. insurance regulator

July 25, 2018:

• The top 3 questions residents ask about buying a home

June 19, 2018:

• Anticompetitive CVS-Aetna merger should be blocked

June 14, 2018:

• Top 10 stories from the 2018 AMA Annual Meeting
• Health care AI holds promise, but physicians’ perspective needed

June 13, 2018:

• AMA puts its organizational muster behind health equity push
• Physicians adopt plan to combat pay gap in medicine
• Doctors oppose policy that splits kids from caregivers at border

June 12, 2018:

• Physicians seek to expand LGBTQ access to family and medical leave

June 11, 2018:

• Physician obligations don’t end when patients pursue care abroad

May 28, 2018:

• JAMA Network launches open-access journal

April 30, 2018:

• Directory-related mishaps affect patients monthly, say doctors

April 18, 2018:

• The AMA Code of Medical Ethics and health care spending

April 16, 2018:

• Charter calls for comprehensive efforts on physician burnout

April 10, 2018:

• Surgeon general: Naloxone should be widely prescribed, carried

March 2, 2018:

• AMA, Anthem try new tack: Working together to improve health care

Feb. 15, 2018:

• Concussion-like symptoms found in U.S. personnel in Cuba

Jan. 26, 2018:

• 1 in 3 physicians has been sued; by age 55, 1 in 2 hit with suit

Jan. 22, 2018:

• Proposed guidelines aim for safe, effective mobile health apps

Jan. 4, 2018:

• Patients and politics: What the AMA “Code of Medical Ethics” says

Dec. 29, 2017:

• 10 New Year’s resolutions for your health and your family’s

Nov. 16, 2017:

• For healthy individual market, keep tax rules that spur coverage

Nov. 14, 2017:

• When appearing in media, physicians carry special responsibility

Nov. 11, 2017:

• Dynamic dozen honored at research symposium

Oct. 26, 2017:

• Opioids emergency declaration must be followed with smart action

Oct. 25, 2017:

• Helping patients, physicians form true digital connections

Oct. 19, 2017:

• Individual market-stabilization bill earns physician support

Oct. 4, 2017:

• JAMA Network to launch fully open-access journal

Sept. 20, 2017:

• More big names join effort to help improve mHealth apps

Sept. 6, 2017:

• “Dreamers” bolster physician workforce, should be allowed to stay

Aug. 4, 2017:

• Genome editing and the AMA “Code of Medical Ethics”

July 21, 2017:

• Senate should reject ACA repeal, replace bills

July 19, 2017:

• Jeff Bezos’ charitable drive and the “Code of Medical Ethics”

July 16, 2017:

• 9 battleground states show health reform’s high stakes

July 14, 2017:

• Revised Senate bill fails to address core AMA concerns

June 26, 2017:

• Key aspects of GOP health plans unpopular with battleground voters

June 16, 2017:

• Federal funding for Medicaid program should not be capped: AMA

June 14, 2017:

• New AMA president: Physicians must lead to reshape medicine

June 13, 2017:

• Retail health clinics’ convenience should not fragment care
• AMA president-elect, trustees elected

June 10, 2017:

• AMA’s vigor, vision spread across all areas of medicine: AMA CEO
• Amid high-stakes changes, physicians can light way: AMA president

May 24, 2017:

• Individual market endangered by uncertainty over subsidies

May 12, 2017:

• Reality TV and the AMA “Code of Medical Ethics”

May 4, 2017:

• Flawed AHCA passes House despite outcry from physicians, patients

May 2, 2017:

• Anthem-Cigna merger threatens innovation, appeals court finds

April 27, 2017:

• New changes don’t fix AHCA shortcomings, threaten key protections

April 25, 2017:

• Critical treatment gap seen in effort to stem opioid epidemic

April 13, 2017:

• Time is short for critical action to stabilize individual market

April 10, 2017:

• Appeals court should uphold decision blocking Anthem-Cigna merger

March 19, 2017:

• Mayo, AMA CEOs urge: Seek physicians as innovation partners

March 16, 2017:

• Major patient groups join AMA to voice concerns on House bill

March 15, 2017:

• Health reform: Patients deserve a healthier individual market

March 14, 2017:

• Health reform: Website will help patients, physicians take action

March 13, 2017:

• “Medspeak” can shut down effective communication with patients

March 8, 2017:

• Rumblings of possible Anthem-DOJ settlement are cause for “alarm”

March 7, 2017:

• The fierce urgency of addressing language, literacy care barriers

March 6, 2017:

• Health reform: No going back on key market protections

March 3, 2017:

• Oscars’ big snafu and the “AMA Code of Medical Ethics”

March 1, 2017:

• Former CMS administrator among 10 Dr. Nathan Davis Award winners

Feb. 24, 2017:

• Health reform: Protecting insurance gains is priority No. 1

Feb. 23, 2017:

• Florida ‘gun gag’ law provisions struck down by appeals court

Feb. 20, 2017:

• EHR switch poses learning curve in the surgical suite

Feb. 13, 2017:

• Make your medical romance last a lifetime

Feb. 9, 2017:

• Clinicians often misestimate interventions’ harms, benefits

Jan. 31, 2017:

• EHR safety concerns uncovered, addressed with daily huddle

Jan. 30, 2017:

• Van Halen helps physician rethink older patients’ physical exam
• Survey quantifies time burdens of prior authorization

Jan. 26, 2017:

• Make the most out of meetings to improve practice teamwork

Jan. 25, 2017:

• 21 principles to reform prior-authorization requirements

Jan. 20, 2017:

• Don’t let smartphones distract from care

Jan. 12, 2017:

• 4 reasons why health coaching works

Jan. 9, 2017:

• Lifelong health: Physician-led effort focuses on teens

Jan. 3, 2017:

• AMA CEO: Before repealing ACA, offer replacement details

Dec. 29, 2016:

• Resolved: 8 tips for a healthier lifestyle in 2017

Dec. 27, 2016:

• Precision medicine: When to order somatic cancer panel testing

Dec. 16, 2016:

• The top 5 stories patients should read

Dec. 15, 2016:

• Interoperability breakthrough: 5 things physicians should know
• The top 5 stories physicians should read

Dec. 14, 2016:

• The top 5 stories residents should read

Dec. 13, 2016:

• Safety, efficacy guidelines in store for mobile health apps
• The top 5 stories medical students should read

Dec. 12, 2016:

• Our 5 most popular stories of 2016

Dec. 8, 2016:

• 6 reasons patients avoid flu vaccination

Nov. 29, 2016:

• Trump’s HHS pick brings physician, policy experience to role
• How Florida has made tough calls in Zika fight

Nov. 25, 2016:

• More statin guidance muddies primary prevention picture

Nov. 22, 2016:

• Simple ways to deter improper antibiotic prescribing

Nov. 16, 2016:

• AMA ready to engage on health care reform
• AMA acts to support LGBT care, oppose insurance discrimination
• AMA joins call for action to stem tide of gun violence

Nov. 15, 2016:

• As care team leaders, physicians should set right tone
• High-quality mHealth apps can be blended into care

Nov. 12, 2016:

• Big changes ahead in medicine require bold leadership: AMA CEO
• Policy aims driven by physicians’ core values: AMA president

Nov. 9, 2016:

• mHealth data security in spotlight at 2016 Interim Meeting

Nov. 7, 2016:

• 6 ways to get your patients immunized this flu season

Oct. 31, 2016:

• Project improves rural physician access to subspecialty expertise