The sheer number of regulatory and administrative requirements placed on doctors and other healthcare workers has made these professions far more stressful, tedious, and exhausting than they need to be.
Category: Policy
“What Is The FDA Inhaling?”: Steve Forbes Slams Proposed Menthol Cigarette Rules
Ban menthol cigarettes? What’s the FDA inhaling?
The GOP Must Avoid This Trap
Republicans can learn a lot from the blunders of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The health care system will cause its own physician shortage
A quarter of a million dollars — that’s the amount of debt the average medical student in the United States owes after completing medical school. After all the late nights studying, the endless exams and selfless sacrifice, it’s human natur…
Shift from fighting for reproductive rights to fighting for reproductive justice
Although feminist movements include the fight for reproductive rights, they tend to forget to center on justice. Historically, the protection of women’s reproductive rights has not been a priority for governments; however, the drive and the act o…
How to tackle the physician shortage
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts that at least 139,000 doctors will be needed by 2033, particularly in rural and low-income areas. In an attempt to address this need, states have been replacing physicians with non-physician …
Children Under 5 May Get Covid Vaccines Starting In Late June, White House Says
Covid-19 vaccines for children under 5 could be distributed across the U.S. as early as June 21, if regulators authorize them, White House officials said Thursday.
Politics is health care on a grand scale
At the same time that gun violence becomes the leading cause of death for children in the U.S., lawmakers and political pundits caution the public against turning gun violence into a political issue. Yet as Jelani Cobb writes in the New Yorker, the mas…
A call to dismantle structural heteronormative care
“That is a very heteronormative lens.” These words were uttered to me by a 23-year-old female patient as I explained i-PLEDGE and the steps she must complete to take oral isotretinoin. The visit started as fairly routine. A young female pre…
Senators are killing children by failing to enact gun control laws
Nineteen children were killed in a mass shooting in Texas. I have barely escaped the pandemonium of the pediatric emergency department to scarf down a bowl of pasta when I hear the announcement on the breakroom TV. My stomach drops. Again? How is it po…
