“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 Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and the inaugural Physician-Journalist in Residence at Stanford University. As a triple board-certified oncologist, hematologist, and internist, I built and lead a clinical practice in comprehensive primary care for cancer survivors and “previvors” at elevated hereditary cancer risk.

I examine how modern medicine functions—and falters—through award-winning medical journalism. In addition to my book, my work has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, Scientific American, STAT, Undark, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.