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Opinion: The roots of burnout start early. See: Applying to medical school

03.05.2022

Approximately 60,000 medical school applicants will be finishing a nearly year-long admissions process this month, close to the second anniversary of Dr. Lorna Breen’s suicide. Breen’s untimely death in 2020 …

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Health Tech

He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech

26.04.2022

Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner for a super-competitive dermatology residency: He had a double degree from Harvard University, experience as …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Amid the nation’s mental health crisis, we need more psychiatrists now

12.04.2022

Every day, people call my office looking for help: A loved one has not left their bed in a week. A father is experiencing panic symptoms while preparing his children …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’

10.03.2022

Some say the lack of Black physicians is a pipeline problem, with too few Black people going to medical school. I say it’s a gaslighting problem. The health of Black …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Doctors were complicit in Holocaust atrocities. Current and future health care workers need to know that

27.01.2022

The liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, revealed many horrors. Among them were the atrocities perpetrated by doctors who took ethics very seriously, albeit with …

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In the Lab

HHMI philanthropy devotes $2 billion to boost inclusion and equity in biomedical sciences

14.10.2021

Saying bold steps are needed to improve racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science, the influential Howard Hughes Medical Institute on Thursday announced a $2 billion plan to accelerate inclusion …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The U.S. deserves the best public health doctors. They needn’t be medical doctors

13.10.2021

The Covid-19 lockdown began in Massachusetts the week I submitted my dissertation to become a doctor of public health (DrPH). When I had gone back to school in Boston three …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year

21.09.2021

With recent spikes in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country — including in children — the Delta variant has dramatically changed the country’s back-to-school risk calculus. Fearing outbreaks, many …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Virtual medical school: Burnout and a path forward

21.09.2021

We started medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in August of 2020, with classmates scattered all across the world. For some, the educational day ended …

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