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Simplified 9-1-1 Interactions Spurred More Bystander CPR

Improvements seen in Los Angeles regardless of callers' English proficiency

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Doximity Hopes Doctors Buy Into Its IPO

MD social networking site sets aside 15% of shares for physician members

INVESTIGATIVE ROUNDUP over an image of two people looking at computer screens.

Inside Hahnemann's Demise; Fauci: Society 'Totally Nuts'; Anti-Vax Law Firm

This past week in healthcare investigations

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Op-Ed: The Day My Patient Called Me the N-Word

Why is there so much silence when it comes to racial issues?

Bauchner Out as JAMA Editor-in-Chief

AMA launches search for new top editor, led by Otis Brawley

An overhead view of a male physician standing in front of a wedge of tightly packed people.

Op-Ed: Is Physician Behavior Contributing to CDC Skepticism?

Setting an example or second-guessing guidelines?

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How to Get Patients to Speak Up When They Experience a Medical Error

Make your hospital or practice a welcoming place to report a problem, expert says

A close up of a physicians white jacket with a name tag that reads: PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE

PAs Attempt to Rebrand With a New Name

Years-long process with hopes of boosting profession's relevance and impact

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Op-Ed: Let's Stop Equating Female and Male Bodies

Medical tech needs to account for how gender agnostic conditions affect women differently

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Op-Ed: Who Was Least Wrong About COVID?

ZDoggMD and Marty Makary review their pandemic hits and misses

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Three Reasons Your Patients Are Unhappy

How to practice on a human level

50 Hospitals Get Dubious Ranking on Racial Inclusion

"If you want an illustration of what structural racism is, this is it"

Three photos of a young Indian woman beginning with her original skin tone and then progressively lightening.

Unhealthy Quest for Lighter Skin Fuels Bleaching Epidemic

Breaking the centuries-old cycle of myths about skin color

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Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old's Death

Parents charge care delays for child with hydrocephalus were tied to arrangements for star doctor

Breast Cancer Screening During COVID Reveals Inequities

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, discusses new findings and his takeaway

A sad little boy with his face to a wall

Op-Ed: Love Can Conquer Trauma

My wife helped me heal old mental wounds

Trust in Healthcare System Needs Rebuilding, Internal Medicine Group Says

Scientists have to stop believing that we'll change minds with more data, adds president & CEO

A close up of a drop of blood on the index finger of a Black female who is preparing to test her blood sugar

Op-Ed: Diabetes Is Not an Equal Opportunity Killer

Policy change and community intervention can help fight disparities

A male physcian at the bedside of his male patient uses virtual reality to look at MRI images of his brain.

Evaluating Tech for Clinical Use

What factors should you consider?

A stern looking mature male physician making the stop gesture with his right hand

Op-Ed: Down With the Gatekeepers of Medicine

Educators should be mentors, rather than weeding out those they deem unfit

A graphic of a petition which reads: STOP TOKYO OLYMPICS TO SAVE OUR LIVES

Op-Ed: Let the Olympic Games Be Canceled

Amid continued crisis, now is not the time for celebrating athletic achievement

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Nurses Union Blasts 'Dangerous' CDC Mask Guidance

NNU charges CDC used unreliable data and disregarded variant threat, low vaccination rates

A YouTube video thumbnail with Rohin Francis, MBBS, Jimmy Kimmel and the words: The Patient IS NOT THE PUNCHLINE

Op-Ed: How Not to Message the Public on COVID Vaccines

A "cringe-inducing" public service announcement with doctors and nurses

A photo of Robert Montgomery, MD

Here's Why This Doc Got a Third Vaccine Dose

A transplant surgeon, a heart recipient himself, saw robust antibody response after third dose

A photo of Amani Jambhekar, MD, MBA

Op-Ed: 'Yes, I Am the Surgeon,' She Said

Growing recognition of women as surgeons starts with changes in healthcare systems

INVESTIGATIVE ROUNDUP over an image of two people looking at computer screens.

CHS Sues Thousands of Patients; Hospital Parking Fees Under Fire; Trump-Era Emails

This past week in healthcare investigations

'Talents' Land U.S. Researcher in Prison

Ohio MD pleaded guilty to lying on grant applications, planned to share research with China

A stressed looking female physician with her hand on her forehead leans against a wall and looks at papers on a clipboard

Op-Ed: This Doc Has 'Post-Litigation Stress Disorder'

The legal system versus the doctor-patient relationship

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Burnout in Cardiology; Restrictive Transfusion Foiled; and Other News From ACC

Highlights from the scientific program of the American College of Cardiology meeting

A photo of Robert Pearl, MD and the cover of his book Uncaring

The Problem With Prestige

An excerpt from "Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients"

A male physician speaks into a microphone held by a news reporter

Op-Ed: Will the Real COVID Experts Please Stand Up?

A core set of principles separate those who make good and bad policy decisions

People lined up for covid-19 vaccination outside of Mayor鈥檚 Health Clinic in Chetla, Kolkata India in April 2021.

Indian States Turn to Ivermectin in COVID Crisis

Two states give anti-parasitic preventatively to large swaths of population despite warnings

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Can COVID-19 Genes Integrate Into Human DNA?

Debate rages over whether SARS-CoV-2 can insert bits of its RNA into the human genome

ACC over a computer rendering of the human heart and major blood vessels.

Stubborn Gaps in Heart Failure Persist Despite Clinician Education, Feedback

Guideline-directed medical therapy underuse still a problem in CONNECT-HF trial

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The Life Cycle of Emotion in Medicine

Perspectives change throughout a career

A photo of the exterior of Indiana University Health hospital next to a selfie Susan Moore took from her hospital bed.

Review ID's Racism During Care of Black Doctor Who Died of COVID

"Lack of empathy, compassion, and awareness of implicit racial bias," external review concludes

A hospitalized female COVID-19 patient wearing an oxygen mask and pulse oximeter.

Most COVID Patients Landing in Hospitals Aren't Fully Vaccinated

Reports from Cleveland Clinic, other health systems starting to roll in

A YouTube video thumbnail with Dr. Zubin Damania and the words MAKE AMERICA MASKLESS AGAIN?

Op-Ed: Make America Maskless Again?

ZDoggMD thinks we're reaching the COVID tipping point, here's why

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Bloated Notes Are a Time Suck

Why do we do it to ourselves?

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Harassment Charges Fly at LSU Medical School

Women say leadership fostered a culture of harassment, discrimination, retaliation

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