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Opinion: Health care workers need rescuing. It’s time for a Dunkirk moment

06.05.2022

In the late spring of 1940, thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of northern France were spent, demoralized, and facing near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi forces. The …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Should clinicians use emojis when they communicate with each other?

04.05.2022

When a colleague of mine wanted to discuss a new and somewhat out-of-left-field research project that centered around the use of emojis in digital health care communication, I blanched. To …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

13.04.2022

As a psychiatrist, Christin Drake often turns away potential new patients — there just aren’t enough hours in the day to take on everyone who seeks her out or is …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The ‘bot holiday’ and why clinicians can’t tackle disinformation alone

10.04.2022

The war in Ukraine has had an unexpected side effect noted by many health care workers on Twitter: “a bot holiday” — the sudden decline of social media accounts espousing …

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Opinion: Another way to empower nurses: Listen to them

11.03.2022

Five days before my mother died of septic shock, a nurse tried to alert me that something might be wrong. I wish I had listened. After surgery for colon cancer, …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Covid-19 is not a marathon

16.02.2022

Do an online search for “Covid is a marathon” and the hits pile up. Even at the two-year mark, the analogies keep coming. As a marathon runner, I am here …

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Opinion: Creating a digital Hippocratic oath for the 21st century

15.02.2022

“First, do no harm.” Those four words, and the Hippocratic oath of which they are a part, have served as an ethical guide for medical practitioners for centuries. While the …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Mrs. J wanted a blanket in the emergency department. Saying no chips away at my soul

06.02.2022

What upsets Mrs. J isn’t the six hours she’s waited in the emergency department to see a doctor for a growing and surprisingly painful inflamed area on her leg. Or …

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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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