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…
Category: physicians
Opinion: I fear Covid-19 is pushing young physicians out of medicine
During more than 30 years as a physician and an officer in the U.S. Air…
Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function
An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney…
Opinion: Virtual medical school: Burnout and a path forward
We started medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in August…
STAT+: Stanford spins out a company to tap old patient data to answer new questions
A company is launching out of Stanford University on Wednesday to tackle one of the…
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…
Opinion: Use systems redesign and the law to prevent medical errors and accidents
This summer, surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland transplanted a donor kidney into the wrong…
Opinion: Medicine needs to see what disability means, looks like, and feels like — in its ranks and in its patients
Licensers, employers, and others have asked about my status: disabled or not disabled? The first…
Covid-19 kept families and caregivers out of hospitals. Some doctors think that shouldn’t happen again
PHILADELPHIA — On an early summer morning in North Philadelphia, Marsha El sits on a…
Opinion: Physicians, mental illness, and the problem with ‘passing’
My patient sits with her back hunched, eyes fixed on the taupe industrial carpet as…
My pregnancy made me fear for my career as a physician. It doesn’t have to be that way
I cried when I found out I was pregnant with my second child. While I…
How Doximity parlayed its popularity with doctors into a blockbuster IPO
Doximity exploded onto the public markets last month with an IPO that saw share values…
STAT+: Poll: Most neurologists and primary care doctors disagree with FDA’s approval of Alzheimer’s drug
A majority of U.S. physicians disagree with the decision by the Food and Drug Administration…
Opinion: An open letter to 2021 medical school graduates
To the medical school graduating class of 2021: As I write this, I imagine a…
Opinion: India’s doctors — at home and abroad — face Covid’s unrelenting toll
Ravaged by Covid-19, India is desperately trying to contain a pandemic that has infected nearly…
Opinion: The Covid-19 relief bill created 1,000 more residency slots for new doctors. Wealthy hospitals should be last in line to get them
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law in March includes…
Clinicians open their notes to patients in a grand experiment in medical care
When Glenda Thomas of Framingham, Mass., checked her doctors’ notes online after a recent infusion,…
Opinion: Listen: Healing the healers: An advocate and a psychiatrist on clinicians’ mental health and burnout
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by Corey Feist and Wendy Dean…
Opinion: If pediatrics board can’t lead with its maternity leave policy, it should at least follow
When my daughter started to reveal just how comfortable she was in utero, and wasn’t…
Opinion: Listen: A nurse and a physician on harnessing the full potential of nurses
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by two members of the National…
JAMA editor-in-chief stepping down after backlash from podcast that questioned racism in medicine
Following a huge backlash that flared after the Journal of the American Medical Association aired…
Opinion: Listen: Danielle Ofri on Covid surges and her postmortem folder
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast” I’m joined by Danielle Ofri, a physician, writer-editor,…
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: Doctors should talk about race and racism with their patients. Here’s how
“Why do Black lives matter?” a patient asked me. “Why can’t all lives matter?” It…
Opinion: Health depends on the strength of the doctor/technology relationship
For the past few decades, technology has been gradually revolutionizing health care for patients. It…
Opinion: Let’s banish the term ‘patient’ from the health care lexicon
Almost every industry has changed the term for the people they serve. We are now…
Opinion: My ‘postmortem’ folder and the intensely personal nature of the latest Covid-19 surge
Each morning I when I arrive at my primary care clinic, the first thing I…
Acknowledging its ‘white patriarchy’ and racist past, the AMA pledges to dismantle causes of health inequities
Saying it needs to “pivot from ambivalence to urgent action” and hold itself accountable for…
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…
STAT+: Why health tech companies are investing so heavily in care teams
Kristen Campbell often felt like she was treating patients without all the pieces of the…
Opinion: Needed for long Covid: a less authoritarian approach to understanding, treatment
The public has become increasingly concerned about long Covid — ongoing symptoms and disabilities after…
Opinion: Listen: A Baghdad-trained physician on the barriers to getting a medical license in the U.S.
In this episode of the First Opinion Podcast, I speak with Lubab al-Quraishi, a Baghdad-trained…
Opinion: Low-tech but high-value: Don’t stop reimbursing phone-only telehealth visits
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and…
STAT+: The lobbying juggernaut the American Hospital Association is losing its top advocate at a critical moment for the industry
WASHINGTON — Tom Nickels helped build the American Hospital Association into one of the biggest…
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: ‘It shouldn’t be this hard’ for foreign-trained health professionals to work in the U.S.
When people ask if they should call me “doctor,” I’ve always answered, “Please, call me…
Opinion: How humility can save us from Covid-19
“I was wrong.” That simple statement should have been at the top of the soundtrack…
Medical device firms’ payments to doctors far outstripped those from pharma, study shows
WASHINGTON — The medical device industry gave doctors consulting fees, lunches, lodging, and other incentive…
Opinion: Jason Karlawish and an Alzheimer’s caregiver on dementia’s ripple effect
In this week’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I speak with Alzheimer’s expert Jason Karlawish, director of…
Opinion: In light of anti-Asian attacks, medicine needs to listen to Asian American trainees
The shocking shooting rampage in Atlanta targeting Asian spas, followed not long after by an…
Opinion: A caregiver and physician discuss the financial implications of dementia
In his recent First Opinion, “The long, exhausting reach of dementia care,” Jason Karlawish, a…
Opinion: Building back better requires strengthening primary care
As the pandemic enters its second year, the health care workers who care for patients…
‘Motherhood in medicine’: Returning from parental leave was hard. Covid made it worse
Earlier this month, I steeled myself for my return to work after giving birth to…
STAT+: Senate reaches deal to extend Medicare pay bump for health care providers through 2021
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders have reached an agreement to extend a Medicare pay bump for…
Opinion: Palliative care works, so why is it rarely used? Follow the money
A decade ago, a team of researchers showed clearly that a new treatment for advanced…
Opinion: Make residency — and health care — more equitable by scrapping The Match
At the stroke of noon on Friday, March 19, more than 30,000 doctors-to-be across the…
Opinion: Listen: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine and a ‘life-altering’ decision
In this week’s episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with emergency physician turned…
Driven by the pandemic and ‘the Fauci effect,’ applicants flood public health schools
The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the public health and medical workforces like never before. And…
STAT+: Xavier Becerra’s 4 most urgent challenges as Biden’s soon-to-be HHS secretary
WASHINGTON — Xavier Becerra has survived the worst of a tense confirmation battle to become…
Opinion: Instead of prior authorization, insurers should go back to the old ‘pay-and-chase’ model
The news Jennifer G. and her husband got from her medical team was devastating. If…