Second Opinion

By messing with the largest and one of the highest functioning health care systems in the nation we are putting our vet’s health at risk.     

Woman’s bodies have long been proxy for politician’s power and control – often under the guise of “morality”. Today access to pregnancy termination is in the news, but before that it was contraceptives.

T he data on serious mental illness is surprising and we do not have an adequate response to address the problem.  

This week has been a bad one for woman's reproductive rights and the health care providers who care for them. 

While ordering genetic tests directly from a company seeks to empower patients and puts them in control of their own health data, the test results that are returned are often confusing and leads the person to make incorrect assumptions about their health risks.

When it error occurs it’s easy to blame an individual but its often important to looks at systems causes.

Some experts claim America needs more doctors -- what is far clearer is that we need different doctors practicing in different locations working with different communities

Social psychologists and economists are working from all sides to figure out how to change doctors' prescribing behaviors, but it is not always about what’s best for patients.

Past reasons that people suffered in silence, including stigma and price, are changing meaning more options to assist those with hearing loss.

No longer is being average acceptable.

There’s lots we still don’t know about older antidepressants and now were starting the process all over with an entire new class of drugs.

It behooves us to approach problems with a systems based orientation.

Medical Professionals unconsciously hold biases and stereotypes that impact the care they provide to different type of people.

For a variety of different controlled drugs, such as opioids and stimulants, prescriptions are more common in majority white areas. What is the impact of this disparity?

S exually transmitted diseases and mesentaric adenitis.

Do we want a mandatory retirement age, and if we do it could impact our ability to get timely surgery?

Re-admission rates not only lower quality of life but they are expensive.

The nations is divided – are supervised injection facilities illegal and only serve to promote illicit drug use, or are they a step toward harm reduction as they save lives?

Unbridled greed and disrespect for human suffering seems to be the driver of all award winners.

At local, state, and national levels we are failing to protect and care for transgender people

There is something lost when treatment is only provided to one half of a couple.

It is high time to throw out the current model of medical training and look to designing a health care system that really works and is affordable.

Despite federal laws to assure equal access to mental and physical health care, mental health care is still far from accessible.

We are so very close but we keep making mistakes that set us backward.

Medical Scribes offer some advantages to doctors and to patients –but not everyone approves.