The pandemic has raised pressing questions around preventive measures, vaccines, and safe treatment, but it has also obscured one key lingering uncertainty for medical professionals: Where are all the medical malpractice claims? A variety of factors cr…
Dr. Stephen Thomas, Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Upstate Medical University, discusses what needs to happen to ensure variant strains of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 don’t lead to a fourth surge of cases.
My patient was very upset. The 34-year-old mother of two young children had come to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain despite her COVID-19 concerns. I had just told her that she had a benign ovarian cyst rather than the life-threatening…
An array of conservative activists, lawmakers, and free-market thinkers have been advancing a vision for healthcare policy that would reduce costs and expand consumer choice. Republicans would be wise to start talking about them.
It is a macabre fact. The easing of COVID shutdowns has brought back mass shootings in the U.S. With almost no packed schools, movie theaters, malls, airports, and fewer packed workplaces during the last year, mass shootings did not lead the news. Now …
Eta was a 76-year-old woman with a recent heart attack in and out of the hospital over the last several months. Her course had been complicated by social determinants of health, in that she lacked reliable transportation for necessary follow-up, had un…
With the terrible pandemic receding, the wrongheaded war against e-cigarettes will be renewed. Such attacks must be with resisted. Here’s why.
Primary care physicians already have a lot of competition from retail clinics, urgent care clinics and telehealth services that cater to consumers. Now they’re facing a new threat from the “virtual primary care plans” that insurance c…
The continent’s suspensions are eroding vaccine confidence just when the world needs it the most.
One Chicago school district has already reopened under the three-feet guidance.
