Post Author: Jonathan Staloff, MD

Jonathan Staloff is a family medicine resident and can be reached on Twitter @jonstaloff.

How President Biden’s quest for a public option mirrors LBJ’s passage of Medicare and Medicaid

Policy

January 25, 2021

The health care circumstances of President Biden’s ascent to the Oval Office are unprecedented. He is inheriting responsibility for the American response to a pandemic that has taken more than 400,000 American lives and will take office just months after the Supreme Court heard a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which if repealed will threaten the insurance status of tens of …

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The most loving thing: end of life and saying goodbye

Jonathan Staloff, MD

Conditions

March 6, 2019

“Grandma fell and we’re in the emergency room. She’s very distressed and does not look good. I’m going to put the doctor on the phone.”

I could hear my mother’s voice strain on the other end of the phone line as I braced myself for my conversation with the emergency department physician.

The emergency physician told me that though the work-up was still developing, my grandmother was in respiratory distress, and that …

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