Category: Policy

A specific way to improve our health care delivery system

This spring, in my culminating semester of PA school, I took a course entitled “Health Care Delivery Systems.” After 30-something months, the end was in sight, and I was not particularly excited for another serious class while I was wrapping up rotatio…

Most Americans Don’t Care If People Around Them Mask In Public, Poll Finds

Most Americans aren’t bothered when businesses require them to wear a mask, but also aren’t bothered when people around them choose not to mask, according to a survey published Wednesday by Pew Research Group.

Is The End Of Private Practice Nigh?

Patients and providers should lament the increasing corporatization of medicine. All too often, it’s a recipe for lower-quality, higher-priced health care.

Arkansas Governor Who Signed State-Level Abortion Ban Says He’s Against A National Ban

A national abortion ban would be “inconsistent with what we’ve been fighting for for decades,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) told ABC Sunday.

The trials and tribulations of health care delivery

The reason I pursued PA school pertained to a loved one’s cancer diagnosis. During the trials and tribulations of the diagnosis and treatment, I learned a lot about our health care system. I witnessed the work of phenomenal PAs as they took care of my …

Moderna Stock Falls Despite Vaccine Sales More Than Tripling From Last Year

Shares moved lower despite strong earnings results from the vaccine-maker.

Roe v. Wade: questions that need to be addressed in the near future

On May 2, 2022, news broke that Roe v. Wade would be overturned according to an initial draft majority opinion released by Politico. In the political economy that we find ourselves in, this news has had the immediate consequence of furthering divisions…

Protecting Black women’s maternal health is urgent

In a world of extremes where we are operating in black and white, living in the gray is where the real work happens of confronting truths of left and right, conservative and liberal, and opening up to varying perspectives that reflect diversity. This i…

The Strange Return Of Ivermectin And Hydroxychloroquine: Republicans Push Drug In State Bills

Republican legislators in Ohio, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Kansas and elsewhere want to expand access to disproven Covid-19 treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

A voice from the lower decks of health care

“It feels different down here,” she said. I had just approached a young woman in our ED waiting room to apologize for the seven-hour wait to be seen. She looked at me with bloodshot, dark brown eyes and continued, “It feels like … the…