Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal
Award-Winning Reporter, Former Physician & Author of An American Sickness
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal
Award-Winning Reporter, Former Physician & Author of An American Sickness
Biography
Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is the author of the 2017 New York Times bestseller, An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back. She is senior contributing of Kaiser Health News, an independent non-profit newsroom based in Washington DC, focusing on health and health policy, which is part of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
She was the inaugural editor-in chief of that start-up newsroom from 2016-2022 and a contributing opinion writer at the NY Times from 2019-2021.
Before that she spent 22 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and senior writer at the New York Times, focusing primarily on healthcare but also international environmental coverage.
She has won multiple journalism awards, was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by Washingtonian Magazine and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A graduate of Stanford, Cambridge (Trinity College) and Harvard Medical School, she worked as an emergency room physician before converting to full-time journalism.
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The American Healthcare System
Surprise Medical Bills and What Patients Need to Know to Avoid Them | CBS This Morning
The U.S. Healthcare System and COVID-19: What Are We Learning? | Stanford Graduate School of Business
An American Sickness | Politics and Prose
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