As a PA, I’ve worked in some of the city’s busiest emergency departments. While they differ in practice styles, patient population, and architecture, they all have one thing in common: the nurses are overworked. As thousands of them go on s…
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Saving mothers: How technology can aid in the fight against preventable maternal deaths
Maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the United States are among the highest in the developed world—impacting roughly 50,000 women each year and taking the lives of 700 mothers annually. Three in five of these deaths are preventable, according to …
Inside The Alzheimer’s Scandal: Why Is There Still No Cure?
The Alzheimer’s scandal: Why is there no cure for this dread disease?
Student loan forgiveness: a key step in achieving health equity for minority physicians and patients
As student loan forgiveness awaits a decision from the Supreme Court, the Department of Education has launched a program that can forgive student loan debt for over 40,000 Americans and ease student debt burdens for up to 3.6 million borrowers. As this…
Close The Border To Canadian Health Care
Canada’s healthcare system was once the country’s pride and joy. But as the program enters its seventh decade, public opinion is starting to turn.
The slippery slope of legal assisted suicide and euthanasia
We began with terminally ill patients, but the slippery slope is alive and well, smothered in oil. The Western world is increasingly advocating for the advancement of legal euthanasia, and this is a huge mistake. In their quest, advocates for legally a…
Bringing Modernized Kidney Care To The Home: How Monogram Health Is Transforming Polychronic Care
Founded and incubated by Frist Cressey Ventures, Monogram Health is on the forefront of transforming the long stagnant kidney care industry, where more than one in seven adults in the U.S. — nearly 37 million people — are living with chronic kidney dis…
The CHIPHIT complex and the future of health care: Can we create a low-cost, high-quality system?
The high cost, low quality, and systemic inequities of the U.S. health care system have prompted its redesign. The current health care system is now controlled by consolidated health care institutions, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and…
Healthcare Priorities For The Next Congress
If lawmakers are interested in actually improving the nation’s healthcare system, there are several reforms that can command bipartisan support.
Iranian women’s rights movement faces brutal retaliation from government
A 23-year-old girl reached out to me, a medical professional, seeking advice. “I’m not afraid of them killing me,” she said, referring to the torture and rape that men and women endure in Iranian prisons. “What I’m afraid …
