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I've been a health care reporter for most of my career. As a freelance journalist, and in long stints as a staff writer at the Boston Globe and the Providence Journal, I’ve covered all aspects of health care and medicine. I get the facts right. I meet deadlines. And I write with grace and clarity about topics both deeply human and highly technical.

 

I love the health care beat because it encompasses everything that matters: science, politics, education, society, economics, social justice -- indeed, life and death. 

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Early in my career, I chronicled the final months of a man with ALS who crusaded for the right to physician-assisted suicide but who in the end, even while bedbound, just wanted 

to keep living. More recently, I explored the opposite paradox: People whose lives were extended by a revolutionary drug for cystic fibrosis, and yet who found that sadness and anxiety accompanied the joy of newfound health.

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As the opioid crisis was unfolding in Massachusetts, I showed how opioids destroyed lives, but also how fear of opioids was harming people with chronic pain. In a nine-part series, I revealed the failures of addiction treatment and showed how some people nevertheless find their path to recovery. When the pandemic struck, I embedded at a​

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