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Columns on the decisions that determine how long people live
I am a contributing columnist for the Indianapolis Star and the Indiana Capital Chronicle, writing about the choices made in Washington and Indianapolis that determine how people live — and how long they live. Clinical insight, real-world stakes, no hedging.
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Indiana Is Driving Away Its Doctors and Nurses
“Indiana does not lack talented physicians, mid-level providers, or nurses. Our training programs are excellent. The problem is that the incentive structure we have built consistently steers nurses and providers away from the communities that need them most.”
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Indiana said no to phones in school. Now parents have to say it at home.
The classroom ban worked. The harder conversation starts at the kitchen table.
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I'm a doctor. Political stress is showing up in my exam room.
Patients can't stop following the news. Their blood pressure is up, sleep is poor, anxiety worsening.
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Indiana cut 100,000 Hoosiers from Medicaid. Now what?
What happens in exam rooms and emergency departments after a hundred thousand people lose coverage.
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Indiana is driving away its doctors and nurses
The training programs are excellent. The incentive structure steers providers away from the communities that need them most.
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A parent's reckoning with big tech
Online safety, adolescent mental health, and what a father learns that a physician cannot un-know.
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Indiana at risk from the CDC's hepatitis B vaccine retreat
A quiet change to a vaccine schedule, and the preventable infections that follow it.
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We should protect the First Amendment like we do the Second
Indiana's attack on free speech deserves the same defense we give gun rights.
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Trump warned against Tylenol in pregnancy. Here's what science really says.
Reading the actual evidence on acetaminophen, pregnancy, and autism risk.
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Your kid isn't T.J. McConnell. Let's get a grip on youth sports.
Overuse injuries, burnout, and the cost of treating twelve-year-olds like professional athletes.
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Trump's tax bill will gut Medicaid in Indiana
Where federal budget lines land in a state that already cannot get much sicker.
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Without nurses, there is no health care
Every plan to fix American health care assumes a nursing workforce that is quietly disappearing.
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Indiana can't get much sicker. Give Casey Means a chance at surgeon general.
An argument for judging a nominee by what she might actually change.
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I agree with RFK Jr.'s food dye ban. Indiana should lead it.
Where a physician can find common ground with an unlikely ally.
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Measles is back in Indiana. RFK Jr.'s next moves carry high stakes.
A disease we had eliminated, and the policy decisions that brought it back.
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The bleak future of OB-GYNs in Indiana
Maternity deserts are not a forecast. They are already here, county by county.
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Trump's VA cuts will leave Indiana veterans with slower, costlier care
Wait times are a budget decision wearing the costume of an accident.
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MAGA doesn't have to divide. Let's reclaim it for Indiana.
Make Indiana Great Again — what that could mean if it meant health.
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