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.
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Read more: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Economy Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Economy
The economy remains in a perilous state. How do we prepare for a new economic environment once the health crisis is behind us?
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Read more: The Future of Medicine Post-COVID: Not a Healthy Outlook for Women The Future of Medicine Post-COVID: Not a Healthy Outlook for Women
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing gender inequities in academic medicine.
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Read more: Pandemic Highlights Need for Better Redeployment Planning Pandemic Highlights Need for Better Redeployment Planning
Contingency plans must be developed to address future health crises and mitigate the drawbacks of a highly specialized medical workforce.
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Read more: Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Providers for People with Serious Illness Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Providers for People with Serious Illness
Policy changes could help address the suffering this workforce has experienced and facilitate their continued care for people with serious illness.
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Read more: Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast
We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.
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Read more: Providing Cancer Care in the Age of COVID-19 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: 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.
