What is Good Healthcare?: A Global Study
This is the first part of a three-part series. Part 2 will appear on December 16. 1. The Band-Aid Treatment: We can cover the blood, but we aren’t stopping the bleeding. In June of 2015 I began a...
Are Our Attempts to Reduce Risks Of Disease Helping or Harming?
As a physician in the 1990s, Robert A. Aronowitz was taught to put women who were about to go through menopause on hormone replacement therapy. They were being sold as risk-reducing medicines—they were...
Why Medical Journals Must Make Researchers Share Data From Clinical Trials
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. This month a new BMJ policy on sharing data from clinical trials takes effect. From July 1 2015, the authors of all...
Medicine’s First Commandment and the Environment
Two years ago, I wanted to reduce the amount of material being thrown into disposal bins at the end of operative procedures at my institution’s hospital. After I spoke with all the parties involved—supply...
What Is the Most Prevalent Infectious Disease?
What are some of the infectious diseases that may warrant attention?
Have HIV? Your Health Insurance Company May Discriminate Against You
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010, more than 15 million Americans who didn’t have health insurance before the law have signed on. Expanded coverage, however, does not...
The Arms Race Between Germs and Medicine
How superbugs have taken the lead, and how humans can take it back