Sox is the main author of the textbook Medical Decision Making (with M. A. Blatt, M. C. Higgins, and K. I. Marton, Butterworths, 1988; 2nd ed., with M. C. Higgins and D. K. Owens, Wiley, 2013).[5]
Sox has been member of different national committees that have influenced clinical, educational, and public policy in the United States. He served as a chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood Products, and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Effects of Exposures in the Persian Gulf War. He was president of the American College of Physicians.[6]