President Donald Trump held a rally near my medical school last week. While sitting in a small conference room during a lecture…
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We live in a fractured country and opinions are becoming more polarized. It’s getting harder to find common ground as everyone slowly…
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Medicare for all: a campaign promise, catchy bumper sticker, or viable program?
by Bonnie Friedman March 20, 2019With the 2020 election cycle already moving into high gear, we are hearing a lot about Medicare for all. But is it…
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One of the most popular topics in health care is the idea of universal health care coverage. You know the soundbites: “Medicare…
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For future physician-activists: This is our lane
by Jake Fox Alec Feuerbach and Jordan Rook March 12, 2019Rudolf Virchow, a pioneering physician of the 1800s, once wrote that “politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale”. Over a…
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Medicare for all and the problem of health care on demand
by Michael Brant-Zawadzki MD March 10, 2019The evolving politics of single-payer health care conflate the concepts of universal coverage, health care on demand and free health care. To…
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Instead of Medicare for all, how about Medicare for more?
by Brian C. Joondeph MD March 8, 2019Medicare for all is one of the leading campaign issues among the Democratic presidential candidates. Michigan Rep. John Conyers first introduced the idea in…
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What is self-awareness? A quick Google search says that it is “conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires.” In…