Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz

“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. I practice oncology and internal medicine, with a special focus in cancer survivorship and comprehensive primary care for individuals 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 Magazine, Aeon Magazine, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, STAT, and elsewhere.

My op-ed in Time: Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor's Appointment

Featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

Profiled in The Washington Post
“Yurkiewicz isn’t just a physician: She’s also a journalist, and she weaves a story that’s as intriguing as it is informative.”

Winner, Folio: Eddie Award, 2020
For MDEdge column, “Hard Questions”

Shortlisted for the Cancer Journalism Award, 2019-2020