Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell
Rehab and recovery should be about encouraging the patient to be strong, confident, stubborn, and to keep using her brain.
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Read more: The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
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Read more: Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain, which has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality.
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Read more: Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career
The length of medical training unnecessarily compromises trainees’ ability to balance their careers with starting families.
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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: Why COVID-19 is a Chronic Health Concern for the US Why COVID-19 is a Chronic Health Concern for the US
Coronavirus is an acute problem at the individual level, but nationally it represents a chronic concern.
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Read more: Why soda taxes, an awesome public health policy, are rare Why soda taxes, an awesome public health policy, are rare
By Daniel Aaron This post is, in part, a response to a panel discussion on soda taxes and obesity, given by Professors Emily Broad Leib, Steven Gortmaker, and Carmel Shachar on February 14, 2020. Diet is devastating the public’s health Diet is the top cause of death and disability in the United States and abroad….
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Read more: Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part II) Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part II)
By: Daniel Aaron Just last month, Professor Christopher T. Robertson, at the University of Arizona College of Law, released his new book about health care, entitled Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It. Part II of this book review offers an analytical discussion of “cost exposure,” the main…
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Read more: Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part I) Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part I)
By: Daniel Aaron Just last month, Professor Christopher T. Robertson, at the University of Arizona College of Law, released his new book about health care, entitled Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It. This book review will offer an analytical discussion of “cost exposure,” the main subject of…
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Read more: E-Cigarette Laws that Work for Everyone E-Cigarette Laws that Work for Everyone
By Daniel Aaron The Trump Administration has retreated from proposed tobacco regulations that experts generally agree would benefit public health. The regulations would have included a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, a favorite of children who use e-cigarettes. Currently millions of youth are estimated to be addicted to e-cigarettes. The rules also could have reduced nicotine…
