Conor Friedersdorf of TrueSlant.com includes a number of health-care related stories among his list of best journalism of 2009. See his post for links and comments about each of his choices:
- “AIDS Relief and Moral Myopia” by Travis Kavulla in The New Atlantis
- ProPublica’s Sheri Fink’s piece, “Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices,” which appeared in The New York Times Magazine
- “Brain Gain” in The New Yorker by Margaret Talbot
- “An Epidemic of Fear,” in Wired, by Amy Wallace
- The New Yorker piece, “The Cost Conundrum,” by Atul Gawande
- “How American Health Care Killed My Father,” by David Goldhill, writing for The Atlantic
- “Fine Print,” for the radio program This American Life
- This American Life also gets a nod for a two-part broadcast explaining the American health care system
- “Game Drain” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in GQ
