For more than 100 years, Americans have searched for a cure for health care inequality. Instead, we’ve been prescribed placebos: watered-down poverty…
Public Health & Policy
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During my third year of medical school, I received a harrowing phone call, “Can you please go over to Steve’s place? I…
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I am an emergency medicine physician. I started my career in an ER that saw a significant amount of walk-in trauma. Eventually,…
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Obamacare prices are rising. But not for the reasons you think.
by Peter Ubel MD March 12, 2018It has been well publicized that premiums for Obamacare insurance plans have been rising at a disturbing rate. Local news is filled…
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A confounding and deadly disconnect teems throughout hospitals. Professionals whose careers are devoted to improving health outcomes consistently put their patients at…
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“Philadelphia is a sanctuary where we can live in peace,” said Mrs. Lopez, a patient at a local clinic caring for the…
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Public health and poverty go hand in hand, the latter oftentimes affecting the former. While the root of poverty is complicated, political,…
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We need to be happy with what we have now, and not rely on delayed gratification
by Omar Bukhari March 6, 2018As I sit here today, I think about the future and how life will be ten years from now. There seems to…