Opinion | Would You Switch a Patient’s Medication If You Knew the Cost?
Sloan is a primary care physician and health services researcher. Goss is an associate professor of emergency medicine and clinical informatics. Sinaiko is a researcher and assistant professor of health economics and policy. Put yourself into your patients’ shoes for a moment. Imagine you are visiting your primary care provider (PCP) today to follow up […]
Opinion | Prisoner First, Patient Second
Resnick is an internal medicine resident. Spencer is an internal medicine physician and assistant professor of medicine. As physicians at one of the largest public hospitals in the country, we have left some patient interactions feeling demoralized. This occurs most often when it is clear that medical interventions are incapable of overcoming the structural violence […]
Opinion | The ED Remains Colored by Despair
Edwin Leap is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for 30 years since finishing residency. He currently works as an emergency physician for WVU Hospitals in Princeton, West Virginia. Follow In late 2022, Edwin Leap, MD, wrote about how emergency departments throughout the country were overburdened with patients and staffed with healthcare workers […]
Opinion | Is the New Mpox ‘Outbreak’ Deadlier?
Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of , an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column Inside Medicine. Follow An outbreak* of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) has been detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The World Health Organization […]
Opinion | I Love Being the ‘ER Dad’
Edwin Leap is a board-certified emergency physician who has been practicing for 30 years since finishing residency. He currently works as an emergency physician for WVU Hospitals in Princeton, West Virginia. Follow Not long ago our charge nurse, Shawn, wrote my name on our emergency department dry erase board. Next to it she jokingly wrote, […]
Opinion | ‘Pharmageddon’: The Pharmacy Labor Crisis
Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of , an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column Inside Medicine. Follow Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In this Instagram Live clip, Jeremy […]
Opinion | Healthcare’s North Star Should Be Better Health
Parekh is an internal medicine physician and health policy advisor. Myriad challenges exist for today’s healthcare leaders: tight supply chains, high labor costs, payment reforms, growth in new technologies, artificial intelligence, disruptive competitors, and the prospect of a rising number of uninsured Americans. But there’s a greater challenge than all of these: America’s declining health. […]
Opinion | Medical Debt Is Killing Our Patients
Venkat is an emergency physician and state representative. As an emergency medicine resident in the early 2000s, I cared for a patient in her early 60s with back pain. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), approximately 16% of emergency department patients were uninsured. Often their issues were of low acuity, again […]
Physician Assistants Also Feel Post-Pandemic Burnout
NASHVILLE — Nearly a third of board-certified physician assistants (PAs) said they experienced burnout in the past 3 years, according to a national cross-sectional analysis. Looking at over 111,000 PAs who worked in at least one clinical position, 30.6% self-reported at least one symptom of burnout, found Andrzej Kozikowski, PhD, of the National Commission on […]
Opinion | What Matters Most to You as a Doctor?
Bair is a resident physician. Johnson is a medical oncologist. It is a well-known phenomenon that burnout — defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and apathy towards work — is endemic among physicians. While studies have demonstrated that a loss of meaning in one’s life and career increases susceptibility to burnout, it is still disheartening, though […]