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Opinion: Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel explains why cancer patients shouldn’t pay out-of-pocket costs

31.05.2023

The high cost of cancer treatment in the U.S. is literally killing people. “Over a quarter of cancer patients delay medical care, go without care, or make changes in their …

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First Opinion

Opinion: How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients

24.05.2023

We’ve all had the experience of a doctor or other health care worker staring at screen while asking us sensitive questions to fill out our electronic health records. But that …

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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?

17.05.2023

As an oncologist, Jennifer Lycette gets to know her patients particularly well. She’s doubtful that artificial intelligence could replace that personal connection, but new research based on, of all things, …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The coercion built into medical privacy consent forms

10.05.2023

Alex Rosenblat is particularly careful when it comes to her digital privacy. She requests to fill out paper forms instead of digital ones; she documents and tracks what she signs. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Two medical residents debate their hospital’s unionization drive

03.05.2023

In training to become a physician, medical residency can be a grueling period. Residents and other trainees work long hours for little pay and don’t have much power within each …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Big changes for First Opinion

15.03.2023

After two years as host of the “First Opinion Podcast” and many more as the founding editor of STAT’s expansive, authoritative First Opinion platform, Pat Skerrett put down his editing …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The real experts: people living with mental illness

23.11.2022

When Ken Duckworth was a child, his family didn’t talk about mental health, especially not his father’s bipolar disorder. It was an untouchable topic, but Duckworth knew his father shouldn’t …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The ‘First Opinion Podcast’ live from Boston: Jay Baruch returns

16.11.2022

In a special event as part of STAT’s Open Doors initiative, the “First Opinion Podcast” was recorded live this week in front of an audience with returning guest Jay Baruch. …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Covid is not a ‘racial equity success story’

09.11.2022

The idea that the narrowing gap between Covid-19 deaths among white Americans and Americans of color represents a racial equity success story is being bandied about. Not so fast, says …

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