Women researchers are publishing less since the pandemic hit. What can their employers do to help?
As Covid-19 has shuttered schools across the globe, leaving parents to pick up childcare responsibilities,…
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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: 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…
‘An obligation’: Doctors and other health workers increasingly see protesting racial injustice as part of the job
Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a reckoning with systemic racial injustice,…
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,…
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STAT Plus: Telehealth is a ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic, but implementing it permanently won’t be easy
The coronavirus pandemic has stretched hospital resources beyond their capacity, disrupted the delivery of care,…
Opinion: Physician advocacy against police brutality: #ThisIsOurLaneToo
Last week we found ourselves sharing yet again — first with anger, then with despair…
Opinion: Resident physicians should have a say in their working conditions
In Chicago’s South Loop, the nightly salutation to health care workers begins at 8 p.m.,…
Opinion: Covid-19 is battering independent physician practices. They need help now
Autumn Road Family Practice is a small, six-doctor primary care practice that’s been caring for…
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STAT Plus: AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients
Most attempts to use artificial intelligence to transcribe doctor visits are aimed at limiting documentation…
Opinion: Lessons from the military on how to balance caring for patients against the risk of personal harm
“If not me, then who?” That was the answer Marine Corps First Lieutenant Travis Manion…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…
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: The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity
“Welcome to the Covid crew,” read the email we received in mid-March. With that quick…
Opinion: Doctors discover telehealth’s silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis
Before the Covid-19 crisis, I — like most physicians — thought that in person, face-to-face…
Opinion: Medical students called to the Covid-19 fight need support, protection
As the escalating Covid-19 pandemic puts increasing pressure on health systems, a shortage of medical…
Opinion: I was a ‘perfect setup’ to be fooled by Covid-19
“Hi, this is Pooja,” I answered my phone promptly. I had been waiting all day…
Opinion: Mobilize the military to improve the response to Covid-19
As Covid-19 sweeps across the world, health care workers have become prime victims of it,…
Opinion: With only ‘shaky data’ to go on, it’s tough to practice evidence-based medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic
Part of my job as an obstetrician is to keep up with the latest evidence…
Doctors ‘keep an open mind’ about unproven coronavirus drug, but worry it could do more harm than good
SAN FRANCISCO — For President Trump, whether Covid-19 patients should take a once-obscure malaria drug…
‘We’re being put at risk unnecessarily’: Doctors fume at government response to coronavirus pandemic
LOS ANGELES — Even before the pandemic, burnout, anxiety, and disillusionment were already endemic in…
Opinion: Excluding med students and letting trainees opt out of Covid-19 care is bad for medicine
The devastating coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the dedication and courage of health care communities in…
Opinion: The Covid-19 crisis too few are talking about: health care workers’ mental health
In the midst of this global pandemic, people are talking about the urgent and critical…
Amid coronavirus, private equity-backed company slashes benefits for emergency room doctors
WASHINGTON — A private equity-backed health care company is slashing its doctors’ benefits in response…
Opinion: Lessons from a different war for preventing moral injury among clinicians treating Covid-19
One week after President George W. Bush declared war in Iraq in 2003, I was…
As coronavirus spreads, doctors in the ER warn ‘the worst of it has not hit us yet’
Streets in cities and towns across the country are eerily quiet. Car traffic has dropped…
Opinion: Abandoned by U.S. leaders, the only Covid-19 protection I can count on in my emergency department is trust
I step through the sliding glass doors of my hospital’s emergency department and immediately look…
Opinion: If Covid-19 will peak in June, teaching hospitals should consider delaying the start of new medical residents
Some projections place the peak of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. between May and June….
Opinion: Protect older and vulnerable health care workers from Covid-19
Since the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged late in 2019, health care…
Opinion: In a pandemic, hospital staffers need to get better at hand-washing
After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by…
Doctors warn an inability to smell could be a symptom of Covid-19 — but caution the evidence is preliminary
Health care workers are calling attention to a potential new symptom of a novel coronavirus…
As coronavirus spreads, thousands of foreign doctors could be blocked from U.S. entry, group warns
The status of 7,000 foreign doctors who were chosen to do medical residencies in American…
Opinion: What Singapore can teach the U.S. about responding to Covid-19
Our country, Singapore, has managed to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within its…
Opinion: We don’t send soldiers to fight a war without weapons. Give doctors what they need to fight Covid-19
My husband has been an emergency physician for 30 years. During that time, I have…
Opinion: I fought Ebola. Here’s my advice for health workers fighting Covid-19
In the summer of 2014, as I was preparing to fly to West Africa as…
Opinion: Testing medical students is big business. I see it as extortion
On Friday, I’ll be one of thousands of medical students nervously waiting for the results…
Opinion: When surgery becomes ‘women’s work’: the devaluation of gynecologic specialties
For much of the 20th century, the work of medicine in the U.S. was performed…
Opinion: Doctors working while sick is bad enough in ordinary times. During the Covid-19 outbreak it could be catastrophic
Earlier this winter, before the coronavirus outbreak, I spoke by phone with a colleague who…
STAT Plus: Private equity firms are increasingly buying up doctors’ offices. What does that mean for doctors — or for patients?
WASHINGTON — Can private equity firms provide quality health care? It’s the question that patients,…
Opinion: Women in medicine: unite (or at least stop repressing each other)
The #MeToo and #NeedHerScience movements have inspired women to take a stand against sexism in…
Opinion: Physician practice consolidation: It’s only just begun
Disruption has redefined health care in the past decade. For private practice physicians, the biggest…
Coronavirus cases among health workers climb, underscoring the chaos on an outbreak’s front lines
Thousands of health care workers, largely in China, have been infected amid the ongoing coronavirus…