Stereotypical narratives can harm efforts to address racial disparities in cancer outcomes, say Junaid Nabi and Quoc-Dien Trinh […]
US healthcare
Abraar Karan: Changing the way we communicate about patients
The way we communicate can reinforce a culture in which people become another case of “X” disease […]
Rachel Clarke: Senator John McCain’s surprising lesson for doctors
McCain’s advice about communication has lessons for doctors, says Rachel Clarke […]
The long-lasting damage of Trump’s family separation and child detention policy
Inaction will fortify the process of dehumanization and will rob us of our most human trait, empathy […]
Kinsey Hasstedt: Trump administration looks to impose “Domestic Gag Rule,” continuing its assault on reproductive health and rights
In late May, the Trump administration unveiled its latest attack on affordable birth control access, part of a much larger campaign to undermine reproductive health and rights in the United […]
Benjamin Mazer: Theranos’ dystopian vision lives on
When you go about testing everyone for everything, you don’t create a world of healthy people….you create a nightmare where everyone is sick […]
Bringing the gag rule home: the Trump administration wants to infringe women’s rights to abortion counselling
Proposed rule will limit federal funding for abortion counselling and provision […]
Clinical study reports should be available to help clinicians and patients make informed decisions
The merits of publicly releasing study protocols and statistical analysis plans have been overlooked in the vigorous debate about releasing individual participant level data. [1] In this Opinion, we argue that […]
Abraar Karan: Why can’t we accept that residents are being overworked?
Why are we as a system so slow to accept that young doctors are being worked beyond necessity, and even beyond benefit? […]
Margo Mountjoy on the Larry Nassar tragedy—never again
Victims were silenced, intimidated, repeatedly told it was medical treatment and even forced to go back for continued sexual assault . . . and so as Larry was abusing me […]