Opinion: Life with an autistic child can be difficult. During a pandemic it can be grueling
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily life for most people around the world. It has…
Category: First Opinion
Opinion: Testing everyone for Covid-19 doesn’t make sense. We need to test smarter, not harder
In response to calls for Covid-19 testing of the entire U.S. population, several large universities,…
Opinion: Is Anthony Fauci today’s Galileo Galilei, the champion of science?
Defending science and scientific integrity can be a frustrating and lonely battle. As I watch…
Opinion: Americans think the government should regulate profits from Covid-19 treatments. Be careful what you wish for
As the death toll from the novel coronavirus climbs toward 90,000, a new national survey…
Opinion: Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage
Covid-19 is a tragic infection that is killing hundreds of thousands of people around the…
Opinion: Gilead should ditch remdesivir and focus on its simpler and safer ancestor
In the midst of a pandemic like Covid-19, for which there are no FDA-approved drug…
Opinion: We’re psychiatry residents. We will take good care of you if you get Covid-19
As the number of Americans with Covid-19 rapidly rises, doctors are among them, having no…
Opinion: Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era
“This is my fault. I’m the one who got her sick,” my patient’s son tells…
Opinion: Wearing a face mask helps protect me against Covid-19, but not against racism
The Covid-19 pandemic is putting me in a difficult position as a physician and as…
Opinion: Lead aprons offer little protection during X-rays. Why do so many clinicians keep using them?
Think back to the last time you had an X-ray: The technician probably placed a…
Opinion: Waiting for my daughter Blueberry in the Year Zero of Covid-19
Medicine is typically an intimate interaction with its one-on-one conversations and physical exams behind closed…
Opinion: To put Covid-19 behind us, all Americans should be vaccinated against it
My work as an emergency medicine physician has taken me to urban and rural areas…
Opinion: A global pathogen shield: the health security step to ‘never again’
In the name of strategic defense, the world’s nations have amassed enough nuclear weapons to…
Opinion: Three traps for the unwary in HHS’ provider relief fund
In its rush to offer a lifeline to U.S. health care providers struggling under the…
Opinion: Acknowledging the public role in private drug development: lessons from remdesivir
The quest for vaccines and therapeutic treatments against Covid-19 shouldn’t be complicated or delayed by…
Opinion: What the Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us about community
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”…
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Opinion: Nursing homes, veterans’ homes are national epicenters of Covid-19
It is only Saturday afternoon and our emergency department has already seen the fourth patient…
Opinion: Covid-19 has renewed America’s trust in its doctors. Will it fade when the pandemic is over?
I had a disturbing conversation with my younger sister about the public perception of doctors…
Opinion: Child abuse is one of many unseen harms from shutting down America’s schools
Tick tock, tick tock. In elementary school, my friend Krystal (not her real name) kept…
Opinion: Expertise can help save us from Covid-19 — if we use it right
Not long ago, I read a book about the death of expertise. As I think…
Opinion: A lesson on physician activism from Malawi’s legendary Dr. John Chiphangwi
Five years ago, I was a doctoral student studying the history of medicine in Malawi,…
Opinion: I’m a nurse in a Covid-19 unit. My hospital’s leaders frighten me more than the virus
I’ve been a nurse for almost 10 years, working mainly on a hospital’s cardiac floor….
Opinion: After four years of medical school, how am I ‘nonessential’?
As the U.S began slowly grinding to a halt in February and March, we braced…
Opinion: How biopharma companies can keep ‘feeding the beast’ in the time of coronavirus
My colleagues and I lead and support the finance function of more than 160 biopharma…
Opinion: Intubation boxes: an extra layer of safety or a false sense of security?
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is so infectious that protecting health care workers from…
Opinion: Collateral damage occurs when doctors and patients wear ‘Covid-19 blinders’
My friend Mina had a stroke at home while an infectious disease pandemic raged around…
Opinion: Exercising Bayh-Dole march-in rights would handicap Covid-19 innovation
Scientists across America are working hard to develop treatments for and vaccines against the novel…
Opinion: Lifesaving ventilators will sit unused without a national data-sharing effort
In Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s book “Poverty and Famines,” he argues that famines arise not…
Opinion: A service trip to Peru offers lessons for treating Covid-19 in the U.S.
In mid-February, just before the reality of Covid-19 took hold in the United States, I…
Opinion: Striking down DACA would eliminate thousands of health care workers, thwarting America’s pandemic response
The health care community has a responsibility to anticipate worst-case scenarios and develop response plans…
Opinion: Time well spent: How academic researchers can stay productive in the time of Covid-19
Years of my cancer research work came to a grinding halt on March 13. I…
Opinion: The Covid-19 pandemic will make medical students better doctors
When I graduated from medical school more years ago than I care to remember, my…
Opinion: The U.S. needs to make more CPAP machines. Our supply chain is blocking that
I don’t want to be intubated. That was my main thought a few weeks ago…
Opinion: Suicides of two health care workers hint at the Covid-19 mental health crisis to come
The U.S. entered a grim new chapter in the coronavirus saga with the recent deaths…
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Opinion: Are infertility treatments ‘essential’? How to ethically determine what kind of care must go on amid Covid-19
As the Covid-19 epidemic began to put an unprecedented strain on the U.S. health care…
Opinion: Cancer research offers faster ways to ID new Covid-19 treatments
As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds across the globe, physicians are scrambling for treatments that can…
Opinion: Big Pharma could boost its reputation with a solid response to Covid-19
President Trump, a known critic of Big Pharma, summoned 10 executives from various pharmaceutical companies…
Opinion: Primary care must be saved from being devastated by Covid-19
As the U.S. nears 60,000 deaths due to Covid-19, primary care could be among its…
Opinion: People with disabilities are at a disadvantage when scarce medical resources are being allocated
I have nightmares, whether I’m asleep or awake, as do many of us as we…
Opinion: We need the real CDC back, and we need it now
As political leaders discuss relaxing social distancing restrictions and opening up the economy again, a…
Opinion: The right words matter when talking about advance directives
We are being told to do a lot of things these days: Wash your hands….
Opinion: It’s time to make ClinicalTrials.gov a better tool for patients. Here’s how
Millions of people visit ClinicalTrials.gov each year to find a trial that they or a…
Opinion: Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized
When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with…
Opinion: Adolescents and young adults are paying a high price for Covid-19 prevention
“How can he be so stupid?” a dad asked me in a telehealth visit. His…
Opinion: The Covid-19 pandemic could mark the beginning of the ‘biotech century’
If you had infinite foresight and knew a pathogen like Covid-19 was coming, what would…
Opinion: Remembering UpToDate creator Burton (Bud) Rose, the ‘Steve Jobs of medicine’
Ask any doctor, nurse, or other clinician about UpToDate and you’ll get some version of…
Opinion: The success of a Covid-19 vaccine will hinge on its delivery
The lesson learned from a long history of using vaccines to fight massively disruptive diseases…
Opinion: Public-private partnerships for contact tracing can help stop Covid-19
As the biomedical community works to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, a national strategy…
Opinion: A ‘Swiss cheese’ approach can give us a second chance to contain Covid-19
Fifteen years ago, in response to the threat of H5N1 avian influenza, my team at…
Opinion: It was my job to call people whose Covid-19 tests were positive. That taught me a lot about medicine, the law, and society
As part of my work as an emergency medicine resident, I began a rotation in…