John Samuels

The U.S. physician shortage has reached a crisis most headlines miss: America’s most critical access gaps aren’t in high-profile fields like cardiology — they’re in geriatrics, sleep medicine and family medicine, where wait times now stretch months and 40... See more

Netflix’s “Beef” makes an argument about American healthcare access more bluntly than most policy papers do. In the second season, a young woman sits for hours in a crowded emergency room, injured, scared and mostly invisible to the staff around her, unti... See more

Most estate plans are built around a single event: death. Attorneys draft wills and trusts. Advisors create tax strategies. Beneficiaries are named. Assets are protected and prepared for transfer. This is important work. The harder question is what happen... See more

Just hours after Deniz, a beautiful brown-and-white carriage horse, collapsed and died in Central Park June 9 , the activists pounced. Edita Birnkrant, executive director of the anti-carriage group NYCLASS, posted a video of Deniz in his final moments, ly... See more