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Crossroads: Essays and Columns by Bill Brody

William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
President, The Johns Hopkins University

Crossroads Volume I: Essays on Health Care in Modern America (PDF)
Crossroads Volume II: Essays on Health Care in Modern America (PDF)
Crossroads Volume III: Essays on Health Care in Modern America (PDF)

Archive of Columns

These essays first appeared in Change: A Biweekly Forum for Johns Hopkins Medicine Faculty and Senior Staff.

April 2007 - The Bleeding Always Stops (Redux)
March 2007 - Safety and Mortality
December 2006 - Duelling Scientists
September 2006 - Getting "Out There" (Guest Columnist, Ron Peterson, President, JHHS)
August 8, 2006 - East Meets West
June 30, 2006 - Another Near Miss
June 13, 2006 - Health Care: Three Big Issues (and three little ideas)
May 18, 2006 - The Growth Conundrum
April 23, 2006 - Use of the Name
March 29, 2006 - More Is Not Better
March 13, 2006 - I've Been Fired
February 28, 2006 - Sex, Drugs, and Money
February 14, 2006 - Changing the Equation
January 26, 2006 - Not as Good as We Think
December 2, 2005 - In the Blink of an Eye
November 11, 2005 - Institutional Conflict of Interest
October 27, 2005 - Our Plea to Congress (Guest Columnist, Dean/CEO Edward D. Miller)
October 7, 2005 - Whose Interest?
September 20, 2005 - Doctor Beware: A New Conflict of Interest
July 7, 2005 - The Uncensored Idea
June 22, 2005 - You Gotta Have Connections
May 24, 2005 - Open-Source Software
May 4, 2005 - This Revolution Should Not Be Televised

April 18, 2005 - Laughter Is the Best Medicine

March 31, 2005 - The Dynamic Hockey Stick

March 16, 2005 - Yinned if You Do, Yanged if You Don't

March 4, 2005 - No Conflict, No Interest

February 16, 2005 - Medicare: A Looming Disaster

January 28, 2005 - Fooled by Randomness III

January 12, 2005 - Fooled by Randomness II

December 21, 2004 - Fooled by Randomness I

November 24, 2004 - Garbage In—Garbage Out

November 9, 2004 - Training for 21st Century Medicine

October 28, 2004 - Medical Education, Post Flexner

September 29, 2004 - The One Percent Solution

September 9, 2004 - Nighthawks: Global Outsourcing Comes to Radiology

July 21, 2004 - The Impossible Dream

July 6, 2004 - Drug Addiction
June 18, 2004 - Sex, Drugs and Money

June 1, 2004 - Don't Shoot the Messenger

May 18, 2004 - Physicians in Absentia

May 5, 2004 - Lack of Teamwork Sinks Ships (and Hospitals)

April 26, 2004 - Who's on First?

April 9, 2004 - Buttonholing Safety (Guest Columnist, Peter Provonost, Director Johns Hopkins Quality & Safety Research Group

March 9, 2004 - Tuition Caps

February 17, 2004 - Demographics 102
January 27, 2004 - Contrarians Diverge!

December 12, 2003 - Cost of Medical Education

November 11, 2003 - NIH Roadmap

October 28, 2003 - All Aboard!

October 7, 2003 - Where's the Checklist?

September 18, 2003 - The End of Medical Malpractice

July 21, 2003 - The Bleeding Always Stops

June 24, 2003 - Lost in the Translation 

June 13, 2003 - Is Medicare Cost Effective?

May 27, 2003 - Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good

May 16, 2003 - Hip! HIPAA! Hooray!

April 30, 2003 - HMO-Hopping

April 18, 2003 - Paper or Plastic?

April 1, 2003 - Saving Lives in War

March 18, 2003 - The Unfairness of It All

March 3, 2003 - No Cards Please

February 14, 2003 - You Deserve a Break Today
January 29, 2003 - Advertising's Black Eye
January 17, 2003 - Pyramid Power
December 18, 2002 - Bombs versus Bandaids 
November 27, 2002 - Stop the World! I Want to Get Off...
November 13, 2002 - Physician, Heal Thyself
October 23, 2002 - Time to Redo the HSCRC

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