Opinion: Why I ask my patients about their faith or religion
As a surgeon specializing in cancer, I often meet people at a time of crisis…
Category: physicians
Opinion: Medical schools need to be part of the solution to preventing gun violence
Like so many Americans, we watched in horror the news reports about the mass shootings…
Opinion: The irony — and ignominy — of medical conferences as superspreader events
Emergency physicians like us have seen the worst of Covid-19, from children gasping for breath…
STAT+: Doctors in Arizona are trying to rewrite the surprise billing law to boost their own pay
Doctors in Arizona are crafting a state ballot measure that would modify the new federal…
STAT+: The American Medical Association is fighting an otherwise popular bill to require training doctors about opioid use disorder
WASHINGTON — The American Medical Association wants doctors to have more training on treating people…
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Opinion: Listen: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
For two decades, nurses have been considered the most trustworthy professionals in the country, above…
Opinion: The danger of letting primary care be a rescue path for burned-out specialists
One of the best-known effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the stress and sense…
Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter
When a surgeon asked Sharona Ben-Haim during a 2008 interview for a neurosurgery residency program…
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: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?
Clinicians walk a tightrope when trying to help their patients with chronic pain. They want…
Opinion: The roots of burnout start early. See: Applying to medical school
Approximately 60,000 medical school applicants will be finishing a nearly year-long admissions process this month,…
Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice
In August of 2021, Denise Williams was rushed to Queens Hospital Center in New York…
The doctor who is trying to bring back surprise billing
If Daniel Haller gets his way, surprise medical bills will be back in full force….
He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech
Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner…
Opinion: Medicine needs to do right by patients prescribed opioids
As a medical student, the prism of pain helped me begin seeing patients as people…
Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom
Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators, fueled by the…
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: Amid the nation’s mental health crisis, we need more psychiatrists now
Every day, people call my office looking for help: A loved one has not left…
Opinion: The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard
Have you ever walked down a long hallway in a building and noticed the uniformity…
STAT+: Virtual reality in medicine is garnering more investment. Will the health care system buy in?
As tech companies raise billions of venture capital dollars and completely rebrand to build out…
Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century
Medicine in America underwent a radical transformation in 1910. This was the year the Flexner…
As research grows on primary care and serious mental illness, a glaring gap remains
Laura Brown knows that she has high cholesterol, and that as someone who lives with…
Opinion: Digital health: the latest iteration of medicine’s knowledge problem
When I did my residency in internal medicine and primary care a few years ago,…
The internet’s funniest doctor is in on the joke
Will Flanary’s days are spent conducting eye exams and cataract surgeries at a private practice…
STAT+: TeamHealth hit with another lawsuit for alleged overbilling, this time from an employer
A Louisiana employer filed a class-action lawsuit against TeamHealth, alleging the private-equity-backed physician staffing firm…
Opinion: The Breen bill to protect health providers is well-intentioned. But it won’t stop burnout
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed a bill to “improve the…
Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?
In fall 2020, I reported a story about two HBCU presidents in New Orleans who…
Opinion: Penelope, a fictional pig, taught me how to talk with my patients about their fractured sleep
“How is your sleep?” I’ve posed this question to hundreds of patients. Read the rest……
‘Why would I want that?’: My sister’s simple question reshaped my physician job search
My younger sister has just started college, and she was thinking about pursuing a career…
Opinion: Politicians should not be deciding what constitutes good medicine
Most people get their medical advice from their doctors. But many may soon get it…
Opinion: Sunsetting medical license reciprocity would return medicine to the dark ages
Like many other 3-year-old boys, Braxton Davis is lively and at times playfully mischievous. But…
Opinion: If academic medicine is serious about diversity, its institutions need to pay up
As I began interviewing for my first post-fellowship position as a neuro-oncologist, I immediately realized…
Opinion: Fair hearings often fail to live up to their name when hospitals try to suspend physicians
Over the past five years, there has been an alarming trend in the United States…
What racism in medicine takes from us
During my freshman year of college, Cornel West, the renowned philosopher, had been invited to…
Opinion: My son will be fine, she told the doctors, because he is the Lord God Jesus Christ
Editor’s note: This essay, initially published a year before the emergence of the global coronavirus…
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…
Salary gap between male and female physicians adds up to $2 million in lifetime earnings
Women may now equal or outnumber men in medical school classes, but their lifetime earnings…
STAT+: Hospitals and doctors fail to stop end-of-year Medicare cuts, for now
WASHINGTON — Hospitals and physicians lost a lobbying battle to stave off Medicare cuts of…
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: I worry that burnout can’t be reversed and has fundamentally changed me as a doctor and a person
It took me four months to write this sentence. I wanted to capture my feelings…
STAT+: The loudest physician proponents of Aduhelm have all taken money from Biogen
WASHINGTON — A small group of physicians with deep, at times undisclosed, financial ties to…
Opinion: Making clinicians worthy of medical AI: Lessons from Tesla and self-driving cars
Tesla is in the midst of conducting an unprecedented social experiment: testing drivers of its…
Opinion: Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible
Abortion access is being threatened across the country: Texas has come close to banning abortion as…
Operating at a loss: Our health care system depends on physicians donating their time
During my third year of residency, I staggered my work hours in an attempt to…
Opinion: The AMA needs to declare a national mental health emergency
As the pandemic continues to disrupt life across the U.S., a staggering number of Americans…
Opinion: For abortion care, physicians may need to step aside to support patients
I have come to think that people who provide abortion care are models of the…
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STAT+: Biden administration favors insurers over doctors in controversial new surprise billing regulations
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday sided with insurers over physicians and other health…
Opinion: Covid-19 has revealed the hazards of blocking physician-owned hospitals
Covid-19 caught the U.S. flatfooted. With supply shortages, the availability of intensive care unit beds,…
Opinion: Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine
This week, “First Opinion Podcast” returns to a conversation with emergency physician Uché Blackstock about…