How Preclinical Medical Students Have Embraced Advocacy Amid Virtual Education
Despite our limited skills, we preclinical students sought to expand the scope of what medical students could do during a pandemic.
Social Determinants of Health
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Read more: Viewing Telehealth Policymaking Through the Lens of Disability Viewing Telehealth Policymaking Through the Lens of Disability
As a means for delivering health care, telehealth will only be as successful as it is accessible to our most vulnerable populations.
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Read more: Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge
Supporting doctors and health care workers during times of crisis requires making concrete plans in advance for the worst case scenarios.
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Read more: The Case for Non-Police Response to Behavioral Health Crises The Case for Non-Police Response to Behavioral Health Crises
Despite being both feasible and effective, alternatives to police intervention for behavioral health crises remain the exception, rather than the rule.
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Read more: Intentional Commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Needed in Health Care Intentional Commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Needed in Health Care
Health care institutions have a responsibility to move from performative to intentional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Read more: Performance Analysis of OSHA During COVID-19 Performance Analysis of OSHA During COVID-19
OSHA was highly criticized this year for an alleged lack of enforcement and failure to protect workers from unsafe working conditions related to COVID-19.
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Read more: Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities? Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities?
Can COVID-19 vaccine allocation legally recognize the outsized burden of cases and deaths that racial/ethnic minority communities have borne?
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Read more: Sports Medicine in the Era of COVID-19 Sports Medicine in the Era of COVID-19
COVID-19 has put the lives of athletes in peril for years to come, the extent of which we likely won’t know for quite some time.
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Read more: How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis
To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Read more: Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Humanism in Medicine Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Humanism in Medicine
I worry that my hesitancy to remove my gloves and touch my patient’s hand limits my ability to connect with them as humans and not just vessels of disease.
