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How health care lobbying distorts the U.S. opioid crisis
KevinMD recently published a paper describing the horrible impacts of health care lobbying in the U.S.…
Expert witness credibility is destroyed by AI opinions
There is a conversation happening in the medical-legal space right now, and most clinicians doing expert…
Make America Healthy Again fails true functional medicine
I grew up in a family of nine in New Delhi, where scarcity was our daily…
The quiet hospital financial crisis threatening health care
During the first months of COVID-19, the threat was unmistakable. Hospitals were stretched to capacity. ICU…
Why relationship-centered care matters in medicine
I started volunteering on Saturday mornings out of a feeling of restlessness. Having been in primary…
Patient ownership is the key to a better health care system
I have practiced medicine for 45 years. In that time I have learned that the biggest…
Administrative burden is driving severe physician burnout
You trained for years to become a physician so you could heal people. Yet every day,…
Recognizing structural drift and institutional failure in health care
Most institutional failures appear sudden. A hospital collapses under regulatory scrutiny. A leadership crisis erupts. A…
Pharmacy closures threaten our entire public health system
We turned pharmacies into the backbone of public health during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Then we…