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Child Psychiatrist Frank Putnam Discusses His Soon-To-Be-Published book, "Old Before Their Time, A Scientific Life Investigating How Maltreatment Harms Children and the Adults They Become"
At least one in four girls suffers childhood sexual abuse. For example, the Department of Justice (DoJ) concluded Jeffery Epstein trafficked over 1…
6 months ago
Harvard Professor Eram Alam Discusses Her Just-Published Book, "The Care of Foreigners, How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare"
The US has effectively always suffered a physician shortage. Last year the AMA estimated a shortage of 86,000 by 2035. US policymakers have since 19…
6 months, 1 week ago
Georgetown Professor Linda Blumberg Discusses Commercial Health Insurance "Middlemen"
Over roughly the past year Prof. Blumberg and her Georgetown Center for Health Insurance Reform (CHIR) colleagues have been researching healthcare pr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Prof. Troy Brennan Discusses His Just-Published, "Wonderful and Broken, The Complex Reality of Primary Care in the US"
Even though PC is the only component of healthcare shown to increase life expectancy and is crucial to achieving healthcare equity, outcomes, quality…
7 months ago
Dr. Sachin Jain Discusses Ethical Erosion in Healthcare
Because healthcare today can be increasingly defined as commodified, expedient, financialized, myopic, reductionist and failing to transcend politics…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Drs. Michael Liu and Rishi Wadhera Discuss CMS's WISeR Medicare Demonstration
This past summer CMS, more specifically CMMI, announced a six-year Medicare Part A demonstration that would require hospitals in six states to submit…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Mr. Michael Millenson Discusses the (Tragic) State of Patient Safety
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines patient safety as “a framework of organized activities to reduce risks, lower the occurrence of avoidable…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Recently published research by Prof. Wrigley-Field and her colleagues found that between 1980 and 2023 the total number of US excess deaths equaled 1…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Devin Kellis Argues for Extinction Medicine as a Medical Specialty
The greatest threat to human health is us. Humans are the only species capable of self-annihilation. For at least the past 30 years it has been ack…
9 months ago
The Sabin Climate Law Center's Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre Discusses the ICJ's Recent Climate Advisory Opinion
On July 23rd the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its highly-anticipated climate advisory opinion. The opinion represen…
9 months, 2 weeks ago