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A previously healthy clinician, now critically ill with COVID-19

Kristina Fiore
Conditions
March 12, 2020

A New Jersey physician assistant who was the state’s first COVID-19 patient is speaking out from his hospital bed, calling his illness “severe” and raising concerns about his treatment.

James Cai, a 32-year-old non-smoker with no other health conditions, has been at Hackensack University Medical Center for about a week and says his illness has worsened significantly over that time.

“In the …

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A previously healthy clinician, now critically ill with COVID-19

Is medicine really a model family-friendly profession?

Kristina Fiore
Policy
August 30, 2019

An article in the New York Times touting medicine as a family-friendly profession has stirred up critics who say it denies the reality of career sacrifice and gaps in leadership and pay that female physicians face.

Writer Claire Cain Miller profiled female doctors whose specialties afford them flexible work hours that make it easier to balance their professional and caregiving responsibilities. Britni …

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Is medicine really a model family-friendly profession?

Why the media will slow the healing of Sandy Hook

Kristina Fiore
Conditions
December 22, 2012

When Newtown children returned to area elementary schools less than a week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, the cameras were watching, a reality that may slow healing in the Connecticut community.

Although there’s no literature that’s specific to the effects of a media frenzy after a school shooting on children’s psychological recovery, there’s plenty of other applicable evidence, according …

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Why the media will slow the healing of Sandy Hook

Involuntary commitment for James Holmes: Is his psychiatrist to blame?

Kristina Fiore
News
August 2, 2012

The majority of killers involved in recent mass shootings had encounters with the mental healthcare system before they committed their acts of violence, with some even being legally compelled to seek help.

Few seemed surprised when it came out over the weekend that James Holmes, 24, who allegedly killed 12 and wounded 58 others at a movie theater shooting in Aurora, …

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Involuntary commitment for James Holmes: Is his psychiatrist to blame?

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