Uncertainty & Complexity

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

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

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

Dozens of major medical centers have established specialized COVID clinics around the country. A crowdsourced project counted more than 400....

The truth, even on a good day, is elusive. We would do well to remember that. And perhaps judge ourselves...

More than 2 million low-income people — mostly in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in...

Enough time has passed to where we are reflecting on the pandemic for a sense of closure. We would be...

Gun violence data may appear startling, but they lack meaningful context. It would help to correlate the statistics with broader...

We're familiar with online misinformation. But we’re less familiar with how information overload affects our judgment. It’s time to study...

Researchers are increasingly finding that doctors can transmit prejudice under the guise of objective descriptions.

We expand our efforts to show the importance of perceptions in clinical decision-making. We now present a framework to nudge...

We built modern medicine on data. They provide certainty when facing the unknown. But the heart of medicine is uncertainty....