Alani Gregory is an internal medicine physician and can be reached on Twitter @AGregoryMD. 

Doctors and health care workers must be granted student loan forgiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conditions and Diseases
April 8, 2020

While millions of Americans are being told to stay home, doctors, nurses, and other health care providers are showing up to work every day to battle an invisible enemy—the deadly COVID-19 virus. With hospitals, doctors’ offices, and nursing homes facing personal protective equipment shortages, for health care providers, it is a daily choice between their own health and that of their patients. In fact, many …

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Doctors and health care workers must be granted student loan forgiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic

The crippling health effects of another government shutdown

Health Policy
February 12, 2019

At midnight on February 15th, if Republicans and Democrats don’t come to an agreement about border security funding, the American people will be facing the possibility of a third government shutdown since President Trump took office. The most recent government shutdown — the longest in history at 35 days — left nearly 800,000 Americans furloughed or working without pay. Federal benefits that millions of Americans depend on, such as …

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The crippling health effects of another government shutdown

Psychological first aid can mitigate the effects of overwhelming trauma and loss

Conditions and Diseases
November 7, 2017

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My grandmother was filled with grief as she told me by phone about life on the island of St. Thomas after Hurricanes Irma and Maria had blasted through it. “Tears keep running from my eyes uncontrollably because everyone on the island is suffering,” she lamented, then paused, too sad to continue. I could picture her in her …

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Psychological first aid can mitigate the effects of overwhelming trauma and loss