Providing Cancer Care in the Age of COVID-19
The reshaping of the health care landscape due to the pandemic has reduced new cancer diagnoses by over 50% for patients with breast cancer.
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Read more: Pandemic Highlights Need for Quality and Equity in End-of-Life Care Pandemic Highlights Need for Quality and Equity in End-of-Life Care
Our health care workforce, as well as patients and their families, deserve better medicine in the sensitive and tenuous time at the end of life.
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Read more: Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed persistent, wide-ranging existential threats to effective 911 emergency response.
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Read more: Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: The Health Care System in the Age of COVID-19 Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: The Health Care System in the Age of COVID-19
RecordingSeminar Series Description On March 16, we hosted the final installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy Seminar Series. This seminar series considered the ethical, legal, regulatory, and broader social and institutional impacts that COVID-19 has had, as well as the longer-lasting effects it may have on our society. This fifth…
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Read more: Beyond 20/20: The Post-COVID Future of Health Care Beyond 20/20: The Post-COVID Future of Health Care
As devastating as working on the frontlines of the pandemic has been, I am hopeful that it may be a catalyst for positive change.
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Read more: Pandemic Lays Bare Shortcomings of Health Care Institutions Pandemic Lays Bare Shortcomings of Health Care Institutions
The institutional shortcomings we had long tolerated and adapted to were laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Getting our Child Co-Workers Back to School Safely — and Avoiding the “Education Contracts of Adhesion” Trap Getting our Child Co-Workers Back to School Safely — and Avoiding the “Education Contracts of Adhesion” Trap
As more schools reopen, we need to protect public health, the legal rights of parents and students, and schools’ core ethical imperative.
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Read more: Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers
When you feel complicit in such deep structural dysfunction, it is incredibly difficult to feel heroic.
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Read more: The Fourth Wave of COVID-19: The Effects of Trauma on Health Care Workers The Fourth Wave of COVID-19: The Effects of Trauma on Health Care Workers
One year after the start of the pandemic, I fear the end is not in sight. In fact, I believe that we are on the precipice of a fourth wave.
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Read more: COVID-19 & Disability: A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact COVID-19 & Disability: A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact
RecordingEvent Description The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate effects on the lives of persons with disabilities generally, and especially pronounced effects on specific subsets of this diverse population, including youth with intellectual, developmental, cognitive, and psychosocial disabilities. For example, a letter published recently in the American Journal of Psychiatry on behalf of the directors of…
