In the 1970s, my brother and I were raised as twins. He’s a year older than me, but we wore matching denim outfits, had thick side-parted hair, and worshiped The Beatles. Near identical though we were, only one of us was queer. And America was ly…
Category: Policy
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
QALYs are a pseudoscientific and inhumane way to make decisions about medical treatment. In countries where regulators rely on these metrics to determine patient access to drugs, they almost exclusively lead to the denial of life-saving treatments.
Laboratories Are Still Performing Gain-Of-Function Research On Viruses More Dangerous Than Covid-19
Shockingly, laboratories today are working to make viruses that are even more deadly than Covid-19. Little is being done to stop them. Why?
The Future Of Health Care Is Here, If You Know Where To Look
Telemedicine and direct primary care can help patients access affordable, quality care. Taken together, they offer a way out of the costly and confusing status quo—and a vision of what American health care could one day be.
The realities of immigrant health care served hot from America’s melting pot
By the time I was in elementary school, I was Mom’s right-hand man when it came to interpreting official documents, work emails, or confusing American jokes. Like 20.3 percent of the U.S. population, I grew up in a primarily non-English speaking …
U.S.-China Collaboration Could Cut Development Time, Cost For New Cancer Treatments
The world’s current system for developing cancer drugs is unsustainable, Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist Dr. Bob Li believes.
Healing the damaged nurse-physician dynamic
As anyone in health care knows, a strong nurse-physician dynamic is critical to achieving successful patient outcomes. To provide a quality care experience, it is essential to have a clinical team that knows how to collaborate to achieve that goal. If …
Deaths of despair: an urgent call for a collective response to the crisis in U.S. life expectancy
Some grim news has emerged revealing the sad decline in the health of the United States. America saw its most significant 2-year fall in life expectancy, 2.7 years, in almost 100 years. This has led to U.S. life expectancy being at its lowest since the…
Breaking down the barriers to effective bar-code medication administration
According to the Commonwealth Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the health care system in the United States continues to rank the highest in health spending, has the highest rates of avoidable deaths, and rates…
The locums industry has a beef problem
America, we have a beef problem! The inflation rate is high, and the inflation on beef is even more outrageous. At the time of this article, inflation hovers around 8 to 9 percent, while beef is priced at least 15 to 30 percent more than before COVID-1…
