Doctors, scientists, and public health leaders are increasingly stepping into the fray and getting political, writes Abraar Karan […]
US healthcare
Political pressure on US medical professionals in the covid-19 pandemic
In the year 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic with the leader of the free world hospitalized, the glow of democracy fading, and winter coming, medical professionals in […]
Charlotte O’Herron and Jon Kusner: Is breaking down barriers to voting a dimension of healthcare?
The struggle in the US to manage the covid-19 pandemic has made it clear that public leaders at all levels of government wield great influence over our health. Beyond the […]
Nahid Bhadelia: The US’s political divides makes a unified vision for surviving the next year impossible
Our way forward needs to be a carefully calibrated level of “normalcy,” but the nuance of this strategy is lost in the US’s hyperpolarized political environment, says Nahid Bhadelia […]
California wildfires: impact of air pollution during the covid-19 pandemic
The sky glowed a dark, sinister orange in San Francisco on 9 September; a thick layer of smoke blocking daylight like a solar eclipse (or like a scene from Bladerunner […]
Politicians as scientists: a loss for public health and trust
We should all be dismayed at the prospect of science being manipulated or ignored in policy, says Joe Ross […]
Mushtaq Bhat: Immigrant doctors are eager to serve, but US immigration policy won’t let us
America’s visa restrictions are frustrating for immigrant physicians, but downright dangerous for the US, writes Mushtaq Bhat […]
Gregg Gonsalves: Covid-19 in the US—the new disease denialism
We will look back on this time and the hundreds of thousands of deaths we could have avoided with sorrow, anger, and disbelief […]
Arthur M Feldman: What can Osler teach us about the covid-19 pandemic?
Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, physicians were taught not to mix politics and medicine. This arose when physicians became aware of the atrocities committed by Nazi […]
Eric Kutscher: First, do no harm—but did I?
The cost of providing care during a pandemic is seeing firsthand the evolution of medical knowledge, and wishing current data could have guided past decisions, says Eric Kutscher […]