KevinMD January 15, 2025
In the fall of 2004, everything changed. I became a father for the first time. I had completed four years as a practicing primary care doctor at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California in the Department of Adult Medicine. I had my first op-ed piece published – “How to make your health insurance count as if your life depended on it” – as I was working hard on a book educating patients on how to navigate the health care system. More than once, the health care system failed to provide the care we would expect and that I would have been completely oblivious to had I not been a doctor, and the only doctor in my family.
Though the book was...