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New models of health try to standardize patient care. In the process, they simplify clinical decision-making. But there is a...

Health equity calls for equal patient outcomes. While laudable, it is not what most consider fair. If health equity means...

The pandemic has pushed healthcare to the brink. Healthcare journalists struggle to make sense of it, finding themselves isolated, trapped...

Climate change is a healthcare issue. But it affects healthcare at large more than it does individual patients. Therefore, we...

Public health is a field that thrives on compromise. Yet we have polarized and distorted it into something different. By...

We consider progress in healthcare as a march towards efficiency. But efficiency is limited by patient behavior, which can be...

The government can right many wrongs by focusing on harm reduction policies to combat the rising number of deaths by...

As much as we discuss the drugs used to treat COVID-19, few know where to receive them should they develop...

Individualism has been the defining feature of American culture. Yet, as we enter into a post-pandemic world in which healthcare...

COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for children ages 5-11, a decision most had already anticipated. But lost in the predictability...

The rise in healthcare journalism has led to a rise in biased healthcare articles – with many articles written through...

The AAMC launched an initiative encouraging medical schools to study healthcare equity - a laudable goal, but one that can...