Tafari Mbadiwe

Paying a surrogate to carry a fetus shoehorns a fourth, and fifth, party into the already tight therapeutic triangle formed by the biological mom, fetus, and physician.

Because they’re busy looking in different directions, the principles “innocent until proven guilty” and “first, do no harm” don’t always get along.

Ranking or otherwise gauging physician quality isn’t just a way to assign bragging rights — performance metrics can be used to set reimbursement levels, tailor insurance, and identify physicians who are falling behind.

Every year, suicide takes the lives of close to 400 physicians and takes medical care from as many as 1 million patients.

Decision support systems in clinical settings can dramatically decrease the time and manpower needed to perform a variety of tasks, but do they cause more harm than good?

Evaluating the pros and cons of medical machine learning algorithms in medicine.

Evidence of the streetlight effect can be found across several fields, where investigators draw conclusions from analysis of irrelevant or most readily available data.