Opinion: Can AI help ease medicine’s empathy problem?
Modern medicine has an empathy problem. Artificial intelligence — done right — might be able…
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Opinion: Medicine needs fiction, especially now
The American medical system needs fiction because, as Albert Camus supposedly said, “Fiction is the…
Morning Rounds: Would a bird flu vaccine for cows work?
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Opinion: An aging geriatrician wonders: Who will care for me?
In 1988, I became one of the first U.S. physicians certified in the new specialty…
STAT+: The effort to reform physician pay is set to pit primary care docs against highly paid specialists
WASHINGTON — There’s been a long lull in fighting between primary care and specialty doctors…
Opinion: Tackling administrative harm can yield better decisions for better care
Awareness of the harms to patients caused by errors in diagnosis and treatment has been…
STAT+: Cigna wins case to block former executive from jumping to CVS
CVS Health viewed Amy Bricker as a potential CEO. But she won’t be going to…
STAT+: Nursing homes sue over Biden administration’s minimum staffing rule
A new federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new minimum nursing home staffing rule lays…
Opinion: Addressing health care workers’ trauma can help fight burnout
Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals…
New Medicaid rule expected to lower wait times for home-based care, raise caregiver wages
Caregivers for older adults and people with disabilities could see a bump in their wages…
Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since…
Opinion: Dental care is in crisis. But it’s also a moment of opportunity
While staffing crises at hospitals continue to make headlines, dental care — too often overlooked…
Opinion: Why the debate over proposed nursing home staff minimums is particularly unproductive
The Biden administration’s proposed minimum staffing standard is likely the most important nursing home reform…
STAT+: A for-profit health system’s financial issues could plunge overburdened hospitals into crisis
Steward Health Care, a for-profit health system that serves thousands of patients in Eastern Massachusetts,…
STAT+: A Harvard course seeks to put food on the table in medical education
BOSTON — Doctors often don’t have a lot of time to chat with patients during…
STAT+: Pipelines from high school to health care jobs to be created by new Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative
The Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers will be revamped to create a guaranteed…
Opinion: The nursing staffing crisis has hit one role particularly hard: the nurse manager
Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has…
Opinion: Preventing health care violence in the ER requires moving from safety to security
A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and…
Opinion: Filling 12-month prescriptions is one practical way to help the pharmacist crisis
Pharmacies could be called the most “rock solid” entity in our health care system. Even…
STAT+: Hospitals say violence against health workers is surging. Tech companies are stepping in to help
One day in early 2020, just weeks before Philadelphia entered lockdown, Thomas Jefferson University’s public…
New CDC campaign asks health care leaders to take responsibility for reducing burnout
Often, workplace conversations about burnout put the onus on the individual to take care of…
Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians
While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field…
What will it take to end health care worker burnout?
Long hours and high-pressure situations have long characterized the health care profession — but in…
Opinion: Want to end historic health care strikes? Fix a broken, outdated reimbursement model
History was made this month as more than 75,000 workers staged the largest health care…
Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask
Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic….
Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds
Jobs in health care are known to be challenging for workers’ mental health. But the…
Opinion: Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage
The pressures of the last three and a half years have affected every corner of…
Opinion: Doctors in the U.S. can learn a lot about advocacy and activism from their Israeli counterparts
Israeli doctors are bracing for a fight. On Sept. 12, the Israeli Supreme Court is…
Opinion: How health care systems can protect patients from sexual assault by providers
Health care providers have a sacrosanct relationship with patients. That unique position of trust also…
Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Where Laurel Braitman is sitting is rather apt. Braitman, whose first…
Krystal Cascetta, Lindsay Clancy, and the impossibility of being a mom in American medicine
In Igbo-Nigerian culture, new moms receive exquisite care from their own mothers, mothers-in-law, or surrogate…
Attacks at US medical centers show why health care is one of the nation’s most violent fields
Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in…
Community health workers, experts in the in-between, fight for their place in the system
NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx…
Opinion: Why physicians should let patients call them by their first names
Stephanie W. Edmonds and Ginny L. Ryan are both doctors. Edmonds, a registered nurse, has…
Opinion: Listen: Dance helped this nurse heal from trauma. Now she’s bringing it to others
“You can’t pour from an empty cup” is what registered nurse Tara Rynders learned the…
Opinion: No one — M.D. or otherwise — should use the honorific ‘doctor’ with patients
Florida legislators recently passed legislation to prevent advanced practice nurses in Florida with doctorates from…
Opinion: Health care systems must stop exploiting nurses’ tender hearts and begin supporting them
“Code yellow!” someone screamed. I dipped in and out of consciousness, in and out of…
Opinion: California should become the first state to offer a special minimum wage to health care workers
Lawmakers in California may finally offer a raise to the state’s woefully underpaid health care…
Opinion: How predominantly white hospital leadership teams hurt care for people of color
Last year, my father, a Jamaican immigrant with Medicaid insurance, passed away from a heart…
Opinion: How the conversation about moral injury in health care is changing
In the new book “If I Betray These Words,” I tell the story, with Simon…
Opinion: PAs need a new name, but ‘physician associate’ won’t cut it. Here’s a better idea
I’m standing over an operating table, excising a skin cancer from the forehead of an…
Opinion: More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to
Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute…
Opinion: How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients
We’ve all had the experience of a doctor or other health care worker staring at…
Opinion: How Tennessee is creating new opportunities for doctors trained outside the U.S.
This legislative session, Gov. Bill Lee made history by signing a bill that makes Tennessee…
Opinion: One simple fix for the primary care shortage: assistant physicians
A recent study by the Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of between 17,800…
Opinion: The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by stealing from the Global South
The U.S. is facing unprecedented health care labor shortages and related cost pressures. In the U.K., the…
Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?
On most days around 2pm, home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an…
Opinion: I finally got used to practicing telepsychiatry. Now the DEA wants to change everything
I am by no means telepsychiatry’s biggest fan. But since March 2020, when my practice…
Opinion: Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?
In the emergency room today, everyone is suffering. Many emergency medicine physicians are struggling to…
Opinion: Primary care physicians try to give their all — until they can’t. It’s time to flip the archetype to teamwork
My colleague, Skip, was the kind of primary care doctor I always wanted to be….