When this first covid-19 wave is over, the United States will need a formal inquiry. US based doctors like me regularly receive questions from colleagues across the world who are […]
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Covid-19 and the effect on the gender pay gap in medicine
The ground that women lose now will likely have a profound effect for many years to come, perhaps putting them at a disadvantage for the rest of their careers […]
Trusting evidence over anecdote: Clinical decision making in the era of covid-19
With every new piece of “evidence” on covid-19, implementation has proven harder in practice than in theory, say Tara Vijayan, Nida Qadir, and Tisha Wang […]
Karen E Lasser: Covid-19 and “living for the needs of the day”
In early May 2020, six weeks after the novel coronavirus had made its way to Boston, I was preparing for my first shift at Boston Medical Center’s “influenza-like illness” (ILI) […]
Are we employing the most efficient learning tools to help today’s clinicians and organisations combat covid-19?
No doubt in the future there will be an intensive review of what happened and what we learned from the covid-19 pandemic, but what about right now? Are we employing, […]
Cross-border implications of the US response to covid-19: an escalating health crisis on Mexico’s northern border
On 20 March 2020, the Trump administration announced that it would be limiting nonessential travel across US land borders [1]. Citing the threat of covid-19, the processing of asylum seekers […]
Covid-19 will end but doctors will keep dying: supporting physicians’ mental health after the pandemic
Let’s thank healthcare workers with reforms that improve their working lives, says Trisha Pasricha […]
American patients can’t shop their way to a low cost healthcare system
Hospital price transparency is a distraction from policies that could reduce costs without burdening patients, say Jamie Daw and Adam Sacarny […]
Covid-19 in the US: We’re not getting full value from our data
The way many states currently collect and present data means that debates on policy fall prey to convenient narratives, rather than evidence based assessments, say Caitlin M Rivers and Natalie […]
Kimberly Sue: Behind covid-19’s surges and spikes are people struggling to provide care
Kimberly Sue describes the frustration and fear she feels as a physician witnessing the steep rise of covid-19 cases in the US […]