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Adam Gaffney

Adam Gaffney is a pulmonary and critical care physician and public health researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance, and serves as president of Physicians for a National Health Program. He writes about issues of health policy and politics and is the author of To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History, published by Routledge in 2017.
A hospital tower stretches into the sky, its design reminiscent of a very long receipt.

Bill of Health

The intensive care units where I work as a physician were almost unrecognizable this April: doctors and nurses outfitted in head-to-toe Tyvek suits—bright white protective onesies with hoods—along with face masks, translucent face-shields, and shoe coverings. We squinted, at ...