<span itemprop="author">Amol Saxena, DPM, MPH

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Unveiling excessive medical billing and greed

Recent op-eds have questioned medical billing and doctors’ pay, as both seemed high. Medical “greed” has become more apparent in the past two decades and has been well highlighted by two of my Dartmouth MPH Professors, Elliot Fisher, …

Is it time to shorten medical education in the U.S.?

Shortening U.S. medical education can significantly improve U.S. population health. As patients and stakeholders of U.S. health care, we are at crisis levels. There are not enough primary care doctors for the U.S. population — a basic human need for he…

How BIPOC doctors and patients suffer in the U.S. health care system

It is well documented that the under-represented often suffer from less than ideal health care in the U.S. This has been apparent for more than a century and is one of the reasons the U.S. has the worst health care outcomes compared to all other develo…