I wrote Burden of Pain for all the Cassandra’s, hoping their curse will one day be lifted and people will...

Fear affects healthcare in curious ways, turning worst case scenarios into looming inevitabilities. We compare the fear in the COVID-19...

The X-waiver required to prescribe opioid abuse medications is now gone. But don't expect patients with substance use dependencies to...

Game theory studies how decisions are made. The payoffs of each decision determine the likely outcome. When physicians are prescribing...

Dr. Joshi details his struggles with imposter syndrome when he was writing his upcoming book, Burden of Pain.

We analyze internally conducted surveys to see how the perception of pain affects patient behavior during the clinical encounter.

Patient autonomy has always been valued, as long as it doesn’t interfere with standards of care. However, this will soon...

The now month old behavior of the artist reveals a complex reality at the intersection of black history and mental...

We contextualize the clinical encounter as a game to see how trust affects the rules and payoffs - and the...

Patient satisfaction is the oldest and most widely used metric. It's also misleading because loyalty doesn't correlate with good care.

Behavioral intervention has limited benefits because it doesn't address how patients think about their clinical decisions.

The CDC unveiled its latest opioid prescribing guidelines. It's decidedly more patient centric, but fails to account for how law...