A few months ago, I had an experience much more familiar to me as a writer than a physician: getting rejected. I had written a piece about my experience as a woman trying to hide her cancer diagnosis.

From the day he was sworn in, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called chronic disease – including diabetes, heart disease and cancer – an urgent crisis in America.

I'm a primary care doctor — one who practices in a "regular" brick-and-mortar office — and people in my life have lots of questions about the ads they see for online doctors offering everything from ...