Ezekiel Emanuel

National Institutes of Health; author, “Prescription for the Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations.”

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Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health; Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System; former chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center

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Ezekiel Emanuel on KCRW

Will Congress repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? Will it collapse, as President Trump warns? Dr. Zeke Emanuel says that what’s happening in Washington is just a sideshow.

A prescription for improving U.S. healthcare

Will Congress repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? Will it collapse, as President Trump warns? Dr. Zeke Emanuel says that what’s happening in Washington is just a sideshow.

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There’s a lot of concern these days about antibiotics, and whether they’re losing effectiveness.

Ezekiel Emanuel on the Rise of Superbugs

There’s a lot of concern these days about antibiotics, and whether they’re losing effectiveness.

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How long would you want to live if you had a choice? For most people, the answer is probably as long as possible. But not for Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.

“Why I Hope to Die at 75”

How long would you want to live if you had a choice? For most people, the answer is probably as long as possible. But not for Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.

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