Opinion | ‘They Do Not Have the Right Tools to Do This Job’: What We Heard This Week
“They are fully aware they do not have the right tools to do this job.” — Sebastian Palmqvist, MD, PhD, of Lund University in Sweden, discussing why primary care physicians need blood tests to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more effectively. “There was just such resistance.” — Steven Green, PhD, of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, […]
Opinion | Patients Are Dying in Emergency Department Waiting Rooms
A special session of Congress was called 35 years ago to make lawmakers and the public aware of stories of patients left to die in hospital parking lots for lack of insurance. Around the time of that congressional testimony, called “Equal Access to Health Care: Patient Dumping,” a new guarantee came about: that any individual […]