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Stuck between a virus and a cold place: A choice for homeless Americans [PODCAST]

February 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021

"What form the incoming winter will take depends on the location and status of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each city must find a method that will provide the most relief and assistance for their homeless population. Analyzing the results of the…

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“What form the incoming winter will take depends on the location and status of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each city must find a method that will provide the most relief and assistance for their homeless population. Analyzing the results of the measures already taken by shelters in the country will prove vital to developing individualized intentional plans for others. Finances will have …

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Confronting the financial barriers to health care has to be a centerpiece of any COVID-19 strategy

Daniel X. Pham

January 26, 2021Jan 26, 2021

The initial wave of vaccinations is underway, but let’s not forget that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the epidemic of precarious access to health care, an issue that the U.S. uniquely faces in the developed world. In 2018, a survey found that 44% would skip a doctor’s visit because they could not afford it. 33% reported delaying care for them …

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

Jonathan Staloff, MD

January 25, 2021Jan 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just months after the Supreme Court heard a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which if repealed will threaten the insurance status of tens of …

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Lessons learned from a combat doctor in Iraq [PODCAST]

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January 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021

"My own dream-induced pain started at the same time this child was mowed down. Then and there is when and where my faith in God died because God, the higher power, had allowed this unspeakable nightmare to happen. My hope…

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“My own dream-induced pain started at the same time this child was mowed down. Then and there is when and where my faith in God died because God, the higher power, had allowed this unspeakable nightmare to happen. My hope for the future evaporated, all while helplessness chewed through my guts From Left to Right.

This was the same moment I realized …

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How health care organizations can tackle racism in patient care [PODCAST]

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January 23, 2021Jan 23, 2021

"The new American Medical Association policy recognizing racism as a public health threat and providing an anti-racist approach to equitable care will have no effectiveness unless health care organizations get their own houses in order and actively do anti-racism work…

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“The new American Medical Association policy recognizing racism as a public health threat and providing an anti-racist approach to equitable care will have no effectiveness unless health care organizations get their own houses in order and actively do anti-racism work in their own institutions.

Although I’m not a health care provider, as a health care communicator whose role is dedicated to diversity, …

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Medicine in the shadow of the Confederacy

Megan S. Lemay, MD

January 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021

To get to my primary care clinic in Richmond, VA, my patients and I must walk past the Confederacy's White House. Our emergency room sits in its shadow. Each day, I walk past the three-story white building surrounded by my…

To get to my primary care clinic in Richmond, VA, my patients and I must walk past the Confederacy’s White House. Our emergency room sits in its shadow. Each day, I walk past the three-story white building surrounded by my hospital on three sides. Renamed the American Civil War Museum, it is now repurposed to sterilize hospital staff masks. The faded letters of a long-removed sign on the front read …

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There’s a doctor in the house, and maybe also a physician: a view from osteopathic medicine

Daniel Skinner, PhD & Stevan Walkowski, DO

January 21, 2021Jan 21, 20213

The Wall Street Journal’s decision to publish an attack on Dr. Jill Biden’s right to be called “doctor” has appropriately unleashed a firestorm. According to Joseph Epstein, the editorial’s author, Biden should drop the title because she isn’t what people often think of when they hear the word “doctor,” namely a physician. For Epstein, ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to …

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As both patients and physicians, women face discrimination

Melinda Ring, MD

January 17, 2021Jan 17, 20212

My first clinical rotation as a third-year medical student was in orthopedics. I remember the excitement of being scrubbed into the OR, with the gloried task of suctioning while the fellows did the real work. About 30 minutes into the surgery, when things were getting underway, a male physician scrubbed in and took the tool away from me — I grabbed it back, letting him know I had the

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A real-life example of irrational health care spending

Taylor J. Christensen, MD

January 17, 2021Jan 17, 202117

This week at work, I had a patient in the hospital who had been through a pretty challenging illness, and he was going to have to be discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) to rehab for a few weeks. Sadly, SNFs in my area do not currently allow any visitors due to the pandemic. The patient is very close to his daughter, who lives out of state, and she …

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The answer to hate speech or false speech is not censorship

Mary Tipton, MD

January 16, 2021Jan 16, 20215

I am at a loss. While trying to explain the events to my children since January 6, I feel profound sadness and fear. Our country is built on freedom, yet the latest in a parade of crisis’ is being used by those in power to remove our freedoms at an alarming pace and divide our country further.

Less than one percent of the people who went to Washington, DC for a …

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It is not enough to say we are anti-racist. We must address glaring disparities in treatment.

Jane Gagliardi, MD

January 14, 2021Jan 14, 2021

Sometimes structural racism surfaces in a way that even those of us who would like to be “color-blind” cannot help but see. In the spring of 2020, the video-recorded death of George Floyd (who was Black) at the hands of…

Sometimes structural racism surfaces in a way that even those of us who would like to be “color-blind” cannot help but see.

In the spring of 2020, the video-recorded death of George Floyd (who was Black) at the hands of a law enforcement officer (who was white) brought millions of witnesses to the kind of hostility that is all-too-familiar to individuals of color. Individuals, many non-white, took to our nation’s capital …

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Dear medical community, it’s time to engage in the climate movement [PODCAST]

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January 12, 2021Jan 12, 20212

"I plan to reach out to climate organizations and see what I can do to get involved. Whether that means writing more op-eds like this one or writing to legislators, I now recognize that as part of the medical field,…

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“I plan to reach out to climate organizations and see what I can do to get involved. Whether that means writing more op-eds like this one or writing to legislators, I now recognize that as part of the medical field, especially in regard to mental health, I have a role to play. I invite all of you in the medical field …

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Why states need to develop rural health outreach programs

Ashok A. Jagasia, MD, PhD

January 9, 2021Jan 9, 2021

Disparities in rural health care have been well established with respect to socioeconomic status, race, and geography. COVID-19 brought these disparities to the surface within most rural communities in the United States, highlighting the limited access to health care specialists…

As an otolaryngologist, I have had the privilege and unique opportunity of serving two different communities: Chicago’s city dwellers and

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Conditions and diseases

Maximizing COVID-19 vaccine equity and minimizing death in South Carolina and beyond

Devin M. Kellis

January 8, 2021Jan 8, 2021

That hospitals in South Carolina (SC) began COVID-19 vaccinations in mid-December of 2020 is a marvel of human ingenuity, resilience, and courage. Tragically, however, more than 5,000 confirmed South Carolinian lives have now been lost due to COVID-19. Although SC…

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Medicine is failing rural Americans

Michael McCarthy

January 8, 2021Jan 8, 2021

In recent years, the divide between rural and urban areas of the United States has become more pronounced, with sharply divergent views on both social and economic policies. The results of this latest election show starkly that the divide persists, and indicate that the institutions that shape our nation are not successfully representing all portions of society.

One of those institutions appears to be medicine. A sign of this is how the public …

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Care is no longer personal. Care is political. [PODCAST]

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January 5, 2021Jan 5, 2021

"To care for dependents, the carer must be cared for, both for the sake of her charge and for her own sake. Without such basic infrastructure, we have anxiety, confusion, and chaos. Contagion knows no independent individuals. Its boundaries are…

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“To care for dependents, the carer must be cared for, both for the sake of her charge and for her own sake. Without such basic infrastructure, we have anxiety, confusion, and chaos.

Contagion knows no independent individuals. Its boundaries are not the boundaries of our skin. It relies on the inevitable sociality of human beings. But our vulnerability is also our defense: bonds of …

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Translating social justice into meaningful change for underrepresented minorities in academic medicine

Jean Raphael, MD, MPH & Keila Lopez, MD, MPH

January 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021

As communities of color continue to be disproportionately decimated by COVID-19 and the brutal impact of racism and other longstanding systemic inequalities, academic medicine finds itself at a critical inflection point in defining its role in addressing social injustices not only for its patients but also for its academic workforce. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, many medical schools and teaching hospitals released statements condemning racial injustice and vowed …

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The failure of COVID-19 vaccine distribution confirms government incompetence

Alejandro Badia, MD

January 4, 2021Jan 4, 20214

The COVID-19 vaccine has failed. I don’t mean that the vaccine itself doesn’t work—far from it. I mean the ineffective way such an important lifesaving, pandemic-ending vaccine is being rolled out. The slovenly effort is putting the lives of millions…

The COVID-19 vaccine has failed.

I don’t mean that the vaccine itself doesn’t work—far from it. I mean the ineffective way such an important lifesaving, pandemic-ending vaccine is being rolled out. The slovenly effort is putting the lives of millions of Americans at risk. At the vaccine’s current injection rates, or even if they got it to 1 million a day, it’ll still take a year before all Americans are fully …

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Climate change, cardiac arrest, and the price of inaction [PODCAST]

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January 2, 2021Jan 2, 2021

"We have to start understanding these as the real costs of climate change. We are paying these costs now. In my state of Oregon, people are going to start getting sick and dying in the next few days of the…

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“We have to start understanding these as the real costs of climate change. We are paying these costs now. In my state of Oregon, people are going to start getting sick and dying in the next few days of the wildfire smoke choking the air. When they show up to the hospital with a severe heart attack, or stroke, or respiratory …

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Health care organizations: Clean up your house first, then you can tackle racism in patient care

Nikki Hopewell

December 31, 2020Dec 31, 2020

The new American Medical Association policy recognizing racism as a public health threat and providing an anti-racist approach to equitable care will have no effectiveness unless health care organizations get their own houses in order and actively do anti-racism work…

Although I’m not a health care provider, as a health care communicator whose role is dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, I sit in …

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