Infectious disease expert Dr. Dave Wessner explains how infectious diseases get their names, and why using those names properly is an important aspect of fighting them.
Category: Policy
Is now the time for single payer?
With the news that nearly $6 million Americans have lost their employer-sponsored health due to COVID, it is finally time to ask ourselves: is the “American Model” of health care working? The “American Model” is a system of fragmentation: one in which …
Facebook Takes Down Viral Video Making False Claim That ‘Hydroxychloroquine Cures Covid’
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have deleted a viral video titled “America’s Frontline Doctors” that attracted millions of views with dubious claims about hydroxychloroquine.
Birx Visits Tennessee, Pushes For Mandatory Masks
91% of the state’s counties are above the threshold for acceptable virus transmission level.
Spain’s Coronavirus Cases Rise To Worrying Levels After Weeks Of Staying Low
Other European nations, such as Germany and France, are also seeing their numbers rise after lifting some of their toughest restrictions.
Spain’s Coronavirus Cases Rise To Worrying Levels After Weeks Of Staying Low
Other European nations, such as Germany and France, are also seeing their numbers rise after lifting some of their toughest restrictions.
Driving culture change in the pursuit of oncology value
Five years ago, if you asked oncologists at my practice to name the list price of a given chemotherapy agent, most wouldn’t have known–unless they were executives, maybe. Pharmaceutical reps rarely talk about costs. The EMRs don’t give list price…
COVID-19 misinformation is a public health crisis
As a medical student, I have discussed with classmates and faculty how to handle a potential patient interaction on vaccinations. Learning how to handle a patient who may be misinformed may be best through experience rather than lectures. During the CO…
COVID-19: Here’s how to gain the public’s trust
As we all grapple with what it means to live in society battling a global pandemic that is so fundamentally altering the way we interact with one another, we are faced with several questions we haven’t faced before in our lifetime: how are we goi…
An OB/GYN resident’s perspective on Black Lives Matter
As protests broke out on the streets of downtown Cleveland and the National Guard camped outside the hospital, I delivered a beautiful, Black baby boy. In some ways, that night was like any other night. Another vaginal delivery, another moment filled w…
