Medical costs create hardships for more than half of Americans

Medical financial hardship is very common among people in the United States, with more than half reporting problems with affordability, stress, or delaying care because of cost, finds a study by the American Cancer Society. Appearing early online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the study estimates more than 100 million people in the… Read More »

Is Dentistry a Science? – The Atlantic

In the early 2000s Terry Mitchell’s dentist retired. For a while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking dental care altogether. But when one of his wisdom teeth began to ache, he started looking for someone new. An acquaintance recommended John Roger Lund, whose practice was a convenient 10-minute walk from Mitchell’s home, in… Read More »