Elisabeth Rosenthal (born April 29, 1956) is an American

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and former ''

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'' reporter who focused on health and environment matters. She is the author of a 2017 book, “An American Sickness”, which argues that severely distorted financial incentives are at the root of the US healthcare problems. She continues to contribute to New York Times in the 'Opinion' section. She was previously a correspondent in the ''Times''

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bureau. Currently she is editor-in-chief of

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Education

In 1978 Rosenthal obtained her bachelor's degrees in history and biology from Stanford University. In 1980, she received her M.A. degree in English from the

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, where she graduated as a Marshall Scholar. In 1986, she graduated from

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with an M.D. degree. She did her residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and worked part-time 5 years in the emergency department at New York Hospital. She quit her medical practice in 1994.

Career

In 1994 Rosenthal began working for ''

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'' as a science reporter, before covering the health and hospitals beat. Starting in 1997, she worked as the Beijing correspondent for six years. She then became the European health and environment correspondent, working out of the ''

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office in Rome. In 2008 Rosenthal moved back to New York and became the paper's global environmental correspondent. In 2012 she began covering the

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, which started her new beat as a healthcare reporter.

Family

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Awards

* 2014: Victor Cohn Prize for Medical Science Reporting * 2020: Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary

Selected bibliography

* ''An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back'', Penguin Press, 2017, . * "America's Broken Health Care System", ''Kaiser Health News'' (2019) – winner of the Gerald Loeb Award

References

External links

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