“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 with a special focus in cancer survivorship and comprehensive primary care for patients with a history of cancer and those at elevated risk.

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, Smithsonian, New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, STAT, and elsewhere.

Read my perspective on being a physician-author.