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Brain Researcher Teaches Us How to Think Straight, and Feel Better

April 8, 2024 Adam Stone

By Adam Stone Think right now about a problem you faced earlier today, and wrestled with in your mind. Got it? OK, as it turns out, you brought four characters to the experience. I’ll explain. But first, a little context.

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National Effort Brewing to Restore Doctor-Led Practice of Medicine

April 1, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 15th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate healthcare. By Adam Stone Anyone who has been following my now roughly 16-month-old series on CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth knows that while

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Spiritual Healing: A Conversation with ‘America’s Top Psychic Medium’

March 25, 2024 Adam Stone

This column is part of a series exploring topics that provide new insights into the boundaries of established science.  By Adam Stone Anyone who might already be familiar with Matt Fraser’s origin story knows he often discusses how he was

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Whistleblower Releases Audio, Files Complaint: Cites Medical Billing Plot at Optum

March 18, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 14th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate healthcare. FLEECING THE FEDS Local Unionizing Effort Intensifies, Yorktown Workers Poised to Vote Next Week  Plot on Tape Insider

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Man on a Mission: NWH’s Director and the Triumph of Good Culture

March 11, 2024 Adam Stone

By Adam Stone When Utah native Derek Anderson was coming of age in the early 2000s, and exploring how best to serve the world, his journey took him to Cambodia, where he delivered on a volunteer, self-funded mission in the

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Seeding Wisdom in Westchester’s Emerging Cannabis Culture

March 4, 2024 Adam Stone cannabis,  retail business

By Adam Stone At first, it was mostly just about seizing a once-in-a-generation business opportunity for Beth Smith. The lifelong Westchester resident and veteran public school special education teacher knew securing a license from New York’s Office of Cannabis Management

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Justice Department Probing UnitedHealth/Optum Over Antitrust Concerns; Local Layoffs Enacted, More Forecast

February 26, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 13th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. By Adam Stone Although I’ve done a ton of reporting over the past 14 months about Optum,

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A League of Their Own: Pro Softball to ‘Rise’ in New York

February 12, 2024 Adam Stone

Mets Legend Mookie Wilson Joins Long Island Entrepreneur’s Executive Team  By Adam Stone Back in June 2021, my childhood friend Jeff Ahn was watching the Women’s College Softball World Series at his Syosset home alongside his then-10-year-old daughter, with Oklahoma

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Starry Dreams: From London to Pleasantville, Worldly Man’s Journey from Acting to Astrology

February 5, 2024 Adam Stone

This column marks the seventh installment in a series exploring topics that provide new insights into the boundaries of established science. By Adam Stone Colin McPhillamy was a little boy growing up in England, just four years old, when he

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Patient Anxiety Deepens as Turmoil Escalates Inside CareMount/Optum

January 29, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 12th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022 about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. By Adam Stone One result of launching an ongoing series about the problems at CareMount/Optum, and the

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