Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure
Science, law, and the principle of “do not harm” all concur about the path to keeping patients safe from disease and hospitals safe from liability.
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Read more: Unmasking Public Health Unmasking Public Health
It is time for our public health entities to reinvigorate their role as a force of legal and moral suasion to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: Protecting Patients and Staff in Labor and Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic Protecting Patients and Staff in Labor and Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to rethink and reeducate our nurses on how best to protect their patients and themselves during emergencies.
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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: 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: 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.
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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.
