Liz Szabo, senior correspondent for KFF Health News, is an enterprise reporter who focuses on the quality of patient care and has covered medicine for two decades. Her stories about cancer and overtreatment for KFF Health News have won numerous awards, including first place in the National Headliner Awards. She also was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb and National Institute for Health Care Management awards.

Before joining KFF Health News, Szabo covered medicine for USA Today for nearly 13 years. Her coverage of mental health and the link between poor health and substandard housing helped her earn the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2016. Her investigation of dangerous doctors, written while working at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2002, won two National Press Club awards and led Virginia lawmakers to toughen state laws for disciplining physicians.

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