Opinion: To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin
“Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color…
Category: First Opinion
Opinion: Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever
A longstanding failure of the U.S. health care system is that minority and vulnerable populations…
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Opinion: Rising to the challenge of screening for intimate partner violence during Covid-19
Health care providers play an essential role in halting the cycle of intimate partner violence…
Opinion: The pandemic has exposed our broken pharma supply chain. Synthetic biology and brewer’s yeast could fix it
Covid-19 has depleted stockpiles of essential medicines in the U.S., straining our supply chains and…
Opinion: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to Covid-19 isn’t the mystery it’s made out to be
As a physician taking care of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, I had very nearly become immune…
Opinion: A national mandatory order to wear a mask would keep people from becoming ‘walking weapons’
Although lawmakers are engaged with many long-delayed, vital components of a comprehensive federal response to…
Opinion: Invest in community-based organizations to put health dollars where they are really needed
If it wasn’t already clear that the U.S. does a poor job of investing in…
Opinion: Will Covid-19 be the straw that breaks the stethoscope’s back?
“It must be confessed that there is something even ludicrous in the picture of a…
Opinion: Fauci’s strategy for effective public health advocacy: ‘You cannot be ideological’
Public health and politics have always been intertwined. Think abortion and reproductive rights. One prominent…
Opinion: Patient-reported data can help monitor the safety of fast-tracked Covid-19 vaccines
The pharma industry is in a mad dash to bring a Covid-19 vaccine to market,…
Opinion: As residents get better at treating Covid-19, they may become worse at their own specialties
Eight hundred fifty. That’s the number of major procedures general surgery residents need to perform…
Opinion: Pickup truck medicine: saving primary care during Covid-19
As the Covid-19 pandemic burned through Chicago, New York, Detroit, and other large U.S. cities…
Opinion: In the NICU, both parents are essential and need to be at their child’s bedside
As Covid-19 surged through the United States this spring, Reina and James were told they…
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Opinion: Patients should have a role in deciding the value of medicines
Policymakers increasingly consult value assessment models to help price new medical interventions. Value models use…
Opinion: Covid-19 should spark a reexamination of trade secrets’ stranglehold on information
As the world struggles to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, how to handle access to trade…
Opinion: It’s time to begin a national wastewater testing program for Covid-19
As the Covid-19 pandemic marches across America, causing record-breaking numbers of cases, almost every solution…
Opinion: To thrive, Black and Latinx physicians need their communities
I was working at the nurses’ station in the emergency department when the elderly man…
Opinion: My Covid-19 symptoms have lasted more than 100 days, and I’m not alone. Will they ever end?
My first Covid-19 symptoms appeared on March 14: a low-grade fever, profound leg pain, malaise,…
Opinion: Health care reform: The ‘new normal’ needs to go beyond clinical care
This is an extraordinarily difficult time to be a physician. As the leaders of state…
Opinion: Why were we so late responding to Covid-19? Blame it on our culture and brains
From the recent rise in Covid-19 cases linked to reopening in states across the country…
Opinion: People in mental health crises need help, not handcuffs
A mental health crisis can be a frightening thing to the individual experiencing it as…
Opinion: A powerful law gives HHS the right to take control of remdesivir manufacturing and distribution
A rare bright spot followed the emergence of Covid-19 and its spread across the globe:…
Opinion: Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center
For years, hospitals penny-pinching on infection control has been an open secret. Whether Covid-19 will…
Opinion: Structural racism is why I’m leaving organized psychiatry
The killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many others are leading…
Opinion: Regeneron wasn’t making ‘kickbacks.’ It was helping people pay egregious Medicare copays
Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed suit against Regeneron for paying ” tens of…
Opinion: To make progress against Covid-19, processes must serve people, not a ‘labyrinth of bureaucratic rules’
By sheer necessity, the Covid-19 pandemic has united health care systems around the common purpose…
Opinion: Learning from Taiwan about responding to Covid-19 — and using electronic health records
Covid-19 is not an evenly distributed pandemic. The United States is an outlier — and…
Opinion: What to expect from ‘Modernizing the FDA’s Data Strategy’ meeting
After being called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the FDA’s public meeting to discuss…
Opinion: An unsigned PDF blocks study participants from getting their own data needs to go
In the 1960s, Sherry Arnstein helped transform health care in the United States by leading…
Opinion: Medicare shouldn’t make ground ambulance services take a financial hit for providing at-home care
Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping across the U.S., ambulance crews have been treating…
Opinion: Death threats, shoves, and throwing blood: Anti-vaxxers’ bullying of public health officials endangers our country
False claims. Racist and violent memes. Threats. Physical attacks. Public health advocates across the country…
Opinion: Unless it’s done carefully, the rise of telehealth could widen health disparities
The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed telehealth — the remote provision of health care resources, tools,…
Opinion: Covid-19 vaccine research must involve Black and Latinx participants
The development of a Covid-19 vaccine is progressing at an incredible pace, breaking down barriers…
Opinion: This is supposed to be telemedicine’s time to shine. Why are doctors abandoning it?
Telemedicine — the delivery of care by a clinician in one location to a patient…
Opinion: Pandemic politics: What leaders should — and shouldn’t — learn from Napoleon
Some leaders use pandemics and other crises to advance themselves and their own ends. Others…
Opinion: Treatment barriers create racial disparities in cancer care. They need to come down
Every American is entitled to equitable access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….
Opinion: Human challenge trials with live coronavirus aren’t the answer to a Covid-19 vaccine
More than 25,000 people have volunteered so far to be infected with the novel coronavirus…
Opinion: Lack of rapid diagnostic tools contributes to Covid-19 deaths
SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus that humans have never before encountered, is causing hundreds of thousands of…
Opinion: Covid-19 could cause a mental health crisis. It can also spark post-traumatic growth
Some experts are warning of a looming mental health crisis in the wake of the…
Opinion: Celebrate fathers by including them in family health research, especially about Covid-19
Covid-19 is freaking out fathers. And rightly so. Whether it’s an expectant father trying not…
Opinion: The Trump rally in Tulsa is a recipe for disaster
President Trump is set to hold a rally Saturday evening inside the 19,199-seat Bank of…
Opinion: Account for gender/sex to make personal protective equipment safer for women
Covid-19 is not a gender- or sex-neutral killer. Men are more likely than women to…
Opinion: How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them
More than 120,000 Americans have now perished from Covid-19, surpassing the total number of U.S….
Opinion: Scientists as heroes: Let’s keep that image in the public eye
“You truly have emerged as a personal hero for me,” Julia Roberts tells Dr. Anthony…
Opinion: An ‘America first’ pharma supply chain sounds good. But it won’t work
With a stroke of the president’s Executive Order pen, the Trump administration awarded a $354…
Opinion: Cough and pneumonia in the time of coronavirus
Standing in line outside a grocery store in Seattle, almost at the front, the requisite…
Opinion: To fight Covid-19, open access to scientific publishing
To tackle the ongoing catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic, the biomedical research community must deploy…
Opinion: By phone, cancer patients reveal their Covid-19 angst — and seek help
Clinical trials have always represented hope for people with cancer. Whether someone is newly diagnosed…
Opinion: Covid-19 and remdesivir: rethinking how we measure a drug’s ‘value’
As pharmaceutical and biotech companies scramble to identify treatments for Covid-19, a new disease that…
Opinion: Fee for service is a terrible way to pay for health care. Try a subscription model instead
Amid the nightly roar of applause for health care workers courageously caring for Covid-19 patients,…