Opinion: Calling all health care workers ‘heroes’ harms all of us
Here’s an unjust fact: Some of the frontline health care workers we’ve been celebrating with…
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Opinion: Ventilators can save people with serious Covid-19. The people behind them are even more important
In mid-March, the day before I flew back to New York City to return to…
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: 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…
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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: 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: 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: 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…
Opinion: When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, health care must not return to business as usual
I’m a doctor who treats patients with Covid-19 in the emergency department and the intensive…
Opinion: You are waiting for the surge
The death toll from the march of Covid-19 through New York City soars past 10,000….
Opinion: Without training, N95 masks may not protect workers on the Covid-19 frontlines
A key strategy for protecting health care workers on the frontlines of fighting the highly…
Opinion: Health care workers speaking truth on social media: amplify and protect their voices
“I think a lot of doctors now are feeling that the worry and the panic…
Opinion: Professionalism drives health care workers to treat patients with Covid-19. We mustn’t jeopardize it
Why would a slight, 79-year-old physician-scientist stand up to a volatile, combative President Trump on…
Opinion: Faces of health care workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 fight
Health care workers are responding to the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic with professionalism and…
Opinion: I am far more than ‘just a nurse’
I inspect my patient from head to toe and then left to right across her…