The Shrinking Number of Primary Care Physicians Is Reaching a Tipping Point
By Elisabeth Rosenthal I’ve been receiving an escalating stream of panicked emails from people telling me their longtime physician was retiring, was no longer taking their insurance, or had gone...
View ArticleMedical Expertise Meets Financial Reward: Exploring Paid Surveys for Doctors
In the dynamic world of healthcare, physicians are the linchpin holding together the ever-advancing realm of medical knowledge and patient care. Their expertise not only fosters groundbreaking...
View ArticleMothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?
By Sarah Kwon When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN felt high. Caldwell, a Black woman, had heard stories from family...
View ArticlePolice Blame Some Deaths on ‘Excited Delirium.’ ER Docs Consider Pulling the...
By Markian Hawryluk and Renuka Rayasam The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving...
View ArticleDo Doctors Know Enough About the Commercial Determinants of Health?
By Nickrooz Grami Even before setting foot in medical schools across the country, prospective applicants learn the importance of the social determinants of health – non-medical factors that influence...
View ArticleWho Will Care for Older Adults? We’ve Plenty of Know-How but Too Few Specialists
By Judith Graham Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the first physicians in the United States to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a doctor who specializes in the care of older adults....
View ArticleWhy It’s So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care
By Markian Hawryluk The U.S. spends huge amounts of money on health care that does little or nothing to help patients, and may even harm them. In Colorado, a new analysis shows that the number of...
View ArticleMany Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive...
By Andy Miller After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune...
View ArticleBiology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too
By Samantha Liss Jasen Gundersen never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly three decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor. But, today, he isn’t working in...
View ArticleCan Family Doctors Deliver Rural America from Its Maternal Health Crisis?
By Sarah Jane Tribble CAIRO, Ga. — Zita Magloire carefully adjusted a soft measuring tape across Kenadie Evans’ pregnant belly. Determining a baby’s size during a 28-week obstetrical visit is routine....
View ArticleDoctors Are as Vulnerable to Addiction as Anyone. California Grapples With a...
By Bernard J. Wolfson BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Ariella Morrow, an internal medicine doctor, gradually slid from healthy self-esteem and professional success into the depths of depression. Beginning in...
View ArticleRising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care...
By Cecilia Nowell After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided...
View ArticleAmerica’s Health System Isn’t Ready for the Surge of Seniors With Disabilities
By Judith Graham The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will...
View Article‘Emergency’ or Not, COVID Is Still Killing People. Here’s What Doctors Advise...
By Amy Maxmen With around 20,000 people dying of covid in the United States since the start of October, and tens of thousands more abroad, the covid pandemic clearly isn’t over. However, the crisis...
View ArticleWhy Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked
By Arjun V.K. Sharma In the 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get them to lose weight, quit smoking, and abstain from alcohol. To some degree, it worked. But...
View ArticleIs the High Cost of American Medical Care Worth It?
Once upon a time, I was a little girl whose parents came to New York City from India. So the adults in my life would ask me — did I want to be a doctor or an engineer? Since being around sick people...
View ArticleCOVID and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom
By Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure. The devices send those...
View ArticleNeedle Pain Is a Big Problem for Kids. One California Doctor Has a Plan.
By April Dembosky, KQED Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down...
View ArticleNot in Your Head
By Julie Rehmeyer, OpenMind magazine You’re a doctor. You have fifteen minutes with your patient, who cries as she ticks off a laundry list of vague symptoms. Depression is very common, you think,...
View ArticleOverdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year
By Arthur Allen One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to...
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