Inaction will fortify the process of dehumanization and will rob us of our most human trait, empathy […]
US healthcare
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 […]
Benjamin Mazer: The dog whistle medicine of the anti-vaccine movement
The vaccine “debate” is the art of not talking about what we are talking about […]
Vinay Prasad on the NCCN’s cancer treatment guidelines: The US system needs an audit
What level of evidence should we have before costly, toxic cancer drugs are given to patients? […]
Chaitanya Haldipur: Do we need to test the competency of older doctors?
We tend to revere our older colleagues for their clinical wisdom, but this should not compromise patient care […]