Category: Health Care and Medicine
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How Mainstream News Coverage Distorts the Policy, Politics, and Polling on Medicare For All
We need our news media to start telling the truth.
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Bernie Sanders-Style Health Care Would Be a Big Win for Low- and Middle-Income Americans
Bernie Sanders just released his new proposal for a single-payer health care system. As former US Labor Secretary Rob Reich notes, Sanders’ plan would be “a huge advance over what we have now.” Reich’s summary: It builds on the strengths of Medicare. Like Medicare, it’s universal — separating health insurance…
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Big Pharma: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
Martin Shkreli is a man I admire in an odd sort of way. The recent controversy involving Mr. Shkreli and his price hike of the toxoplasmosis drug, Daraprim, seems to have caused misguided furor towards the 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. He may epitomize a major problem with the pharmaceutical…
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Anti-Vaxxers: Why Medical Students Aren’t Being Trained to Weigh-in
With increasing frequency I have been asked by friends and well-wishers about how “anti-vaxxers” are being broached by my medical school professors. Simply put, we aren’t being taught anything on the matter. This is insight on how future physicians are being groomed to handle public misinformation and media outcry. Obviously…
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A Person Among Machines
34justice’s first guest author is David Fischer, a student at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute medical research fellow. In this piece, David discusses how physicians navigate “the gray zone between life and death” when they interact with patients on life support. David studies the effects of…
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What Did I Just Pay For?
One year down and the greater part of a decade to go. As a first year medical student, having finished class for a couple months has allowed for ample time to digest much of what happened to me over the last twelve months, I can’t help but ask the question:…
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On Becoming a Bat
I have volunteered in almost a dozen hospitals and clinics on both coasts, worked thousands of hours in the ER, and I’ve been exposed to the hospital setting for just over a decade. But January 24th 2014 was the first time I was there on the other side of healthcare.…
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