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: 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.
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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.
