From the first use of special teak bullets for crowd control by British troops, here’s the troubled history behind the development and use of ‘nonlethal’ projectiles.
Category: Policy
COVID-19 Reveals The Power Of Deregulation
For decades, red tape has frustrated the efforts of healthcare providers to deliver timely, high-quality care. The pandemic has shown just how useless so many of those regulations were. Continuing the deregulatory drive will yield a more efficient and …
American Medical Association: Doctors To Work To End Police Brutality, Racism In Healthcare
The American Medical Association Sunday pledged “to confront systemic racism and police brutality” at a special virtual meeting of the group’s policy-making body.
Anti-racism must be a priority for medical institutions
I want to start with a moment of silence to remember so many who have been stolen from their families and communities as a direct result of rampant white supremacy, anti-blackness, and police violence: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna …
Anti-racism must be a priority for medical institutions
I want to start with a moment of silence to remember so many who have been stolen from their families and communities as a direct result of rampant white supremacy, anti-blackness, and police violence: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna …
We need more black cops. We need more black physicians.
I am neither black nor white. I’m brown. I can choose to stay silent and indifferent, but the human and the American in me urges me to express my feelings and opinion about the current situation in the country resulting from a series of unfortunate eve…
Why whole person care is needed for better population health management
Many health care organizations – health plans and hospitals alike – continue to debate what it means to provide population health management (PHM). Most have landed on a definition that aligns closely with what PHM means to them, rather than operationa…
The 2 calamities killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism
There are two calamities killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism. One is novel, and the other is perennial. It is not coincidental that black Americans have died of COVID-19 at almost three times the rate of white people. Both biological and socioeconom…
Health care workers need policy changes, not just applause
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been straining our health care system, public support for health care workers has never been greater. Every evening for a few minutes, neighborhoods across the country erupt into enthusiastic cheering and instrumental no…
We should be collectively tired as a society
Here we are again, mourning the death of another black person at the hands of the people that are supposed to protect and defend our rights. Another casualty in the 400+ year struggle that we have had in this country to be granted the same right to lib…
