Medical residents need support — financial and emotional — for their Covid-19 work
Residents put their health on the line to treat Covid-19 patients. Not being acknowledged for the trauma they faced leaves them feeling forgotten. More
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Why the Coronavirus More Often Strikes Children of Color
Children in minority communities are much more likely to become infected and severely ill. Many have parents who are frontline workers, experts say. More
How Foundational Moments In Medicaid’s History Reinforced Rather Than Eliminated Racial Health Disparities
The past months have laid bare the inextricable connection between two pandemics in the United States: COVID-19, which is disproportionately affecting Black Americans, and systemic racism, which has set the foundation for the stark health disparities we see today. More
‘No matter what we did, we just couldn’t catch up.’
An ER doctor in New York City shares his experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic: "I don't think we’ve had time to process what's happened to us." More
Regulatory Decision-making on COVID-19 Vaccines During a Public Health Emergency
Vaccine development and use depend on data-driven assessment of benefits and risks, first by regulatory bodies, and then more subjectively, millions of times over, by individual physicians and patients. More
The Suffocating State of Physician Workforce Diversity: Why “I Can’t Breathe”
It is a difficult time to witness the outrage of the ravaged and disenfranchised communities of color and the long-standing, systemic oppression of Black people in the US. More
Overuse of Respiratory Viral Panels: A Teachable Moment
This Teachable Moment describes a woman in her 40s with a medical history of recurrent ear infections who presented to the emergency department with one day of left ear pain, nausea, and vomiting. More
With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own healthcare system
"For any given individual in the short run, going to Canada is a decent solution, but it's not a systemic solution," says Dr. Vikas Saini, a Harvard-trained cardiologist and president of the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan healthcare think tank. More
I am tired. But I still love emergency medicine.
I continue to love it despite being tired. I’m starting to think that I’m a masochist. More
How medical education can help fight racism
The country’s medical education system could be pivotal in addressing racism in healthcare. More
The Hospital Industry Is In A Financial Mess: We Have A Unique Opportunity To Fix It
Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic in early March 2020, there has been a deluge of articles describing its horrible effects on hospital finances. More
CDC was pressured ‘from the top down’ to change coronavirus testing guidance, official says
A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN, and a key White House coronavirus task force member was not part of the meeting when the new guidelines were discussed. More
The Hospital Industry Is In A Financial Mess: We Have A Unique Opportunity To Fix It
A new hospital ranking by the Lown Institute finds that some of the biggest, most prestigious medical institutions in the country perform poorly on indicators such as inclusivity (defined in the study as the extent to which they treat patients with low incomes and educational attainment, as well as people of color), delivery of low-value care, and community benefit. More
‘Forever Altered’: Health Care Workers Face Mental Health Struggles After Caring For COVID Patients
Boston Medical Center trauma surgeon Dr. Tracey Dechert is used to tragedy. She has to rush into operating rooms to perform complex surgeries on people who've been in terrible accidents or shot, or have suffered other trauma and the outcome isn't always good. More
Prognosis for Rural Hospitals Worsens With Pandemic
As COVID-19 continues to spread, an increasing number of rural communities find themselves without their hospital or on the brink of losing already cash-strapped facilities. More
‘Our Communities Are In Crisis’: Latinos And COVID-19
A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic. More
Psychotherapy Studies Frequently Spin Results, Analysis Finds
Randomized trials of psychotherapy often include "spin" to look more positive and use unethical research practices like outcome switching. More
Out-of-work patients, families eye direct primary care as their best healthcare options during COVID
Faced with skyrocketing health insurance premiums, Texans are turning to a growing niche of primary care to cover their medical needs during the pandemic. More
The convalescent plasma roller coaster
The FDA's about-face on emergency approval of convalescent plasma raises questions about the level of evidence we need for Covid-19 treatments, and the role of politics in these decisions. More
Does racism make us sick? Amid a national reckoning, the question gains new importance
Racism has devastating health effects on Black people, studies show. The coronavirus pandemic and a national movement against systemic racism has magnified that stress. More