Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black doctors?
When LaShyra “Lash” Nolen was learning about how to recognize signs of Lyme disease in…
Category: health care workers
Opinion: Listen: The ‘First Opinion Podcast’ live from Boston: Jay Baruch returns
In a special event as part of STAT’s Open Doors initiative, the “First Opinion Podcast”…
Opinion: Violence against health care workers is on the rise. They deserve protection
There is no place for violence in civil society. Yet stabbings, shootings, threats and other…
Opinion: Health workers’ mental health: Addressing the invisible global pandemic
The World Health Organization defines mental health as a state of mental well-being in which…
Opinion: Trying to quit my job as an ER doctor gave me reasons to stay
The morning was crisp and still dark as I sat in my car in the…
Twitter has spent years trying to combat health misinformation. Will Musk’s takeover make that harder?
In the years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, many health-care professionals have turned…
Opinion: How motivational interviewing can improve health workforce well-being
The National Academy of Medicine launched its National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being in early…
Opinion: Medical professionals: Make your plan to vote now. Then vote!
The U.S. is less than three weeks from the 2022 midterm elections, which will decide…
STAT+: This summer’s Covid surge was bad for hospital profits
This summer’s Covid-19 surge put a sizable dent in hospital finances, with two large investor-owned…
Opinion: Maternity care in the U.S. is in crisis. It’s time to call the midwife
After pushing for several hours, my patient looks exhausted but happy, clutching her seconds-old newborn…
Opinion: Investing in health workers can help close the vaccination gap — and improve global health
The sharp decline in routine childhood immunization rates the World Health Organization recently reported is…
STAT+: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs
A widespread shortage of nurses at Massachusetts hospitals is only getting more extreme, with an…
Opinion: Immersion in innovation should be part of every health care professionals’ training
When it comes to fostering innovation, most academic medical centers, medical schools, and health systems…
Opinion: Should clinicians use emojis when they communicate with each other?
When a colleague of mine wanted to discuss a new and somewhat out-of-left-field research project…
Opinion: Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?
As a psychiatrist, Christin Drake often turns away potential new patients — there just aren’t…
Opinion: The ‘bot holiday’ and why clinicians can’t tackle disinformation alone
The war in Ukraine has had an unexpected side effect noted by many health care…
Opinion: Another way to empower nurses: Listen to them
Five days before my mother died of septic shock, a nurse tried to alert me…
Opinion: Clinical labor pricing updates are needed to address workforce shortages, financial strain
The ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on primary care physicians are jarring. Fewer than…
Opinion: Health care workers’ suffering goes far beyond burnout. Self-care isn’t the cure
We survived the pandemic’s early days with purpose-fueled adrenaline. Working in the epicenter of the…
Opinion: Laugh a little: Medical professionals, engaged in serious business, need to reclaim their humor
Serious question: Is it OK for medical professionals to laugh at themselves or make fun…
Opinion: Listen: A resident physician on the Covid-stoked fire that burned him out
Resident physician Sudhakar Nuti was almost too burnt out to write about burnout. He spent…
Opinion: Investing in caregiving: a social, public health, and economic issue
As a working daughter, I recently embarked on a new and uncertain phase of my…
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Opinion: Rebuilding the nation’s health care workforce during and after Covid-19: Lessons from disaster management
As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in…
Opinion: Health care workers: catalysts for improvement, not costs to the system
The White House Covid Summit recently convened world leaders, multilateral organizations, global health experts, and…
Opinion: Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation
As some nurses across the country choose to stop working rather than comply with vaccine…
Opinion: Covid-19 keeps delivering lessons about health care worker burnout. Will we learn them?
With the authorizations for several effective vaccines against Covid-19 and a strong vaccination program in…
Opinion: Building resilience and well-being: keys to avoiding the worst of a looming shortage of health care workers
During the marathon of Covid-19, nurses and other health care workers have faced unprecedented levels…
Opinion: ‘This Is My Story’: connecting clinicians with hospitalized patients who can’t speak for themselves
During the maelstrom of Covid-19 in April 2020, I assisted in a birth at Johns…
Opinion: Florida doctor: This devastating Covid surge didn’t need to happen
I recently came across a photo of myself in late December 2020 getting my first…
For undocumented students, a community to help them build health careers
When Denisse Rojas entered college, her path to becoming a doctor started with a lot…
Opinion: The health care workforce is understaffed for life after Covid-19
As the U.S. gradually unburies itself from the Covid-19 pandemic, some people have been sounding…
Opinion: Congress needs to pass the Dr. Lorna Breen act to support U.S. health care workers
Some people are vaguely aware of the story of Dr. Lorna Breen. Among physicians and…
Opinion: Pandemic-inspired idealism is prompting careers in health care. Caveat emptor
Health care workers facing notoriously difficult work lives and high levels of burnout were some…
Opinion: Beware the ‘last mile, first smile’ syndrome when we near the end of the Covid-19 pandemic
Fatigue, distracted attention, and the sense that a crisis will soon be over contribute to…
Opinion: What a century-old painting taught me about being present as a physician today
I was clearing out old files not long ago and came across a copy of…
Opinion: How a rally after the Atlanta shootings helped heal Asian American health care workers
In March 2020, when New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in…
Opinion: Addiction and behavioral health care workers should have access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines
At the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. government and private organizations rushed to support…
‘A wild year’: School nurses greatly expand role with Covid-19 vaccinations, contact tracing
Last September, as Covid-19 vaccine candidates were rapidly advancing, Katherine Park and six of her…
The Trump administration quietly spent billions in hospital funds on Operation Warp Speed
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to…
Opinion: A buddy system can help doctors and nurses weather the Covid-19 maelstrom
Remember outings in elementary school or at camp? You were probably paired with another kid…
Opinion: The bystander effect, Covid-19 vaccine edition
What do Covid-19 vaccination and the stabbing death of a woman outside of her New…
Opinion: Too many Covid-19 patients face death alone. Vaccinated volunteers could change that
I got my first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on Dec. 16, and was surprised…
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STAT+: After repeated delays, Trump’s HHS punts on oversight of a massive Covid-19 response fund for hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services acted with lightning speed to send…
Opinion: To defeat Covid-19, we must acknowledge the fear it engenders
My career as a hospital epidemiologist has been based on science and evidence, which I…
Opinion: As a physician and a patient, I’ve seen the damage caused by the stigma of addiction. It must end
Although the disease of addiction is now obscured by the dark cloud of the Covid-19…
Opinion: Beyond burnout: For health care workers, this surge of Covid-19 is bringing burnover
Covid-19 is roaring back for a third wave. The first two substantially increased feelings of…
Opinion: ICU capacity is more about the clinicians than the number of beds
Each time communities experience surges of Covid-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and…
Opinion: As clinicians are redeployed for Covid-19, onboarding takes on extra importance
Think back to your first day at a new job. It was probably difficult to…
Opinion: A pandemic ethical conundrum: Must health care workers risk their lives to treat Covid-19 patients?
The sweep of Covid-19 across the globe has raised a fundamental question about medical ethics:…
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…