The fight against cancer and push to a carbon neutral future offer promise, experts at an Asia Society conference in New York said this week
Category: Policy
Commitment To America: Just What The Doctor Ordered
The Commitment is important, because it illustrates the glaring contrast between the two parties—especially on contentious issues like health care.
Difficulties navigating the health care system are causing many Black and brown kids to fall through the cracks
A recent JAMA Pediatrics study confirmed what I see in practice as a pediatric primary care psychologist in Texas, one of four minority-majority states. The study reported alarming gaps between Black and Hispanic kids compared to white kids in attendan…
Ending gun violence in America should be a no-brainer
Brain matter was spilling out the top of the patient’s head in the trauma bay. It doesn’t take a neurosurgeon to know that this is not normal. My pager screamed, “GSW to head – ED Room 1.” Gunshot wound to head – Emergency Department Room 1. As t…
The slippery slope of utilization management
“The patient has a severe infection of the hand and is not improving on the current antibiotics,” I explained to the medical director at the insurance company. “I understand. However, the patient has no elevated white count or fever, …
We must work harder to provide COVID relief to other countries
Currently, U.S. officials are considering expanding eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine. Yet, elsewhere, people are still struggling to get access to the COVID-19 vaccine. In many low-income countries, less than half of the population is fully vaccin…
Pay No Attention To Biden’s Biotech Bluster
If the president wants to cure cancer, he and his Democratic allies have an odd way of showing it. In the last few weeks alone, progressives have advanced several policies that directly undermine the development of new cures and treatments for cancer a…
A stark contract between American and Canadian health care
An excerpt from A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks. The United States has the world’s most expensive health care system. It spends about twice as much each year on every American as the Canadian system spends on Canadians. Per capita, the U…
Abortion Access Influences Location Decisions For One In Five U.S. Manufacturing CEOs, According To Forbes-Zogby Poll
Two of Indiana’s biggest employers said last month that they’d think twice about expanding facilities in the state after the legislature passed a near-total ban on abortion. A new poll shows that, nationwide, the companies are hardly unique.
Don’t let vindictiveness creep into medicine like it has in politics
The callous and inhumane dislocation of migrants recently perpetrated by governors of the states of Florida and Texas reminded me of an equally disdainful and appalling tactic utilized by health care workers since the 1960s: “Greyhound therapy.&#…
