Healing in a Hurry, co-written by health journalist Suzanne Gordon, originally appeared in the Nation magazine March 1, 1999. The article was recently reprinted in the "Crossroads" Reader which accompanies Curran & Renzetti's academic book "Social Problems" (Publisher: Allyn & Bacon).

When Your Doctors Disagree originally appeared in the magazine New Choices and won the 1997 National Health Information Gold Award developed as a seal of quality by the Health Information Resource Center. According to the Mayo Clinic, whose health newsletter won the award in 2000, the organization is a national clearinghouse for consumer health information whose annual awards program is the largest of its kind.

Foreword to Healthnet: Your Essential Resource for the Most Up-to-Date Medical Information Online (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) was one of the first comprehensive guides to finding health information on the internet. Click here to read Timothy’s foreword to the book which deals with the changing power relationships between doctors and patients.

"The Impact of Long Working Hours on Resident Physicians," published in 1988 by the New England Journal of Medicine, was a critical analysis of the policy of forcing doctors-in-training to work 36 hour shifts and more than 100 hours per week. The article argued that the situation was bad for residents, bad for medical education and bad for the quality of patient care and was the first major analysis of the topic written from the perspective of a medical resident. While recent rule changes have improved the situation to some degree, many of the issues discussed in the article--Timothy’s first--remain relevant today.

Timothy was one of the principal organizers of the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, a group of prominent physicians and other health care professionals dedicated to addressing the growing crisis in health care. Among the group’s leadership was Dr. Bernard Lown, the Harvard cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. In 1997, the group gained international attention when they staged a reenactment of the historic Boston Tea Party in which doctors and nurses in uniform tossed year-end profit reports from health care corporations into Boston Harbor. The protest coincided with the publication of the group’s call to action, “For Our Patients, Not for Profits,” by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

From five years, starting in 1996, Timothy’s medical commentaries were regularly featured on the public radio program Marketplace. Some of these can be found on the Marketplace web site. Transcripts of others appear here. Please note that the versions that appear here may differ slightly from what Timothy read on the air.

From 1995-2003, Timothy’s column “Examining Your Doctor” appeared in the health newsletter Bottom Line Health published by Boardroom, Inc. The newsletter provides expert advice from leaders in both alternative healing and conventional medicine.