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Opinion: PAs need a new name, but ‘physician associate’ won’t cut it. Here’s a better idea

02.06.2023

I’m standing over an operating table, excising a skin cancer from the forehead of an elderly gentleman while soft piano music echoes off the floor tiles. I’ve performed this procedure …

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First Opinion

Opinion: More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to

30.05.2023

Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute shortage. But health care worker Jada Carter was lucky. Her two children went to Hospitots, …

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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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Opinion: How Tennessee is creating new opportunities for doctors trained outside the U.S.

18.05.2023

This legislative session, Gov. Bill Lee made history by signing a bill that makes Tennessee the first state in the country to remove redundant medical-residency requirements for top international doctors. …

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Opinion: One simple fix for the primary care shortage: assistant physicians

18.05.2023

A recent study by the Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of between 17,800 and 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034. A December 2021 survey found that one in three physicians …

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Opinion: The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by recruiting from the Global South

03.05.2023

The U.S. is facing unprecedented health care labor shortages and related cost pressures. In the U.K., the National Health Service has witnessed its largest nursing strike in history alongside junior doctor strikes, which have been …

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Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?

14.04.2023

On most days around 2 p.m., home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in …

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Opinion: I finally got used to practicing telepsychiatry. Now the DEA wants to change everything

24.03.2023

I am by no means telepsychiatry’s biggest fan. But since March 2020, when my practice of outpatient psychiatry changed overnight, I have adapted to it. I have learned to get …

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First Opinion / Health

Opinion: Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?

20.03.2023

In the emergency room today, everyone is suffering. Many emergency medicine physicians are struggling to provide quality care amid staffing shortages, increased pressure to meet productivity metrics, and frustrated patients …

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