“Fragmented is a bravura feat of synthesis, showing how so many failings of America’s healthcare system are actually facets of the same horrible problem. It’s a call to arms, showing that said problem is intolerable and fixable. It’s an essential book, possessed of a ferocious urgency and anchored by Ilana Yurkiewicz’s stirring, compassionate writing.”

–Ed Yong, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World

I’m a physician on the faculty at Stanford University. As a board-certified oncologist, hematologist, and internist, I run a medical practice focused in comprehensive primary care for cancer survivors and “previvors” at elevated cancer risk due to genetic syndromes.

When I’m not practicing medicine, I’m writing about it as a medical journalist. My writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TIME, Undark, Aeon, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, STAT, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Read my perspective on being a physician-author and Stanford’s inaugural Physician-Journalist in Residence.