Tag: health care

Columns

Critically Ill-equipped

Ann Neumann

March 02, 2022

The pandemic showed the dangers of understaffing at the nation's hospitals.

The Health Care Crucible

John Merrick

April 08, 2021

In the ruins of industry, a new sector rises.

Do No Harm

Jess McAllen

November 29, 2020

Two centuries’ worth of dispute about suicide prevention burst into the pop culture zeitgeist when 13 Reasons Why was aired by Netflix in March of 2017. The “passion project” of Disney protégé Selena Gomez, it is centered on thirteen tapes pre-recorded by moody beauty ...

The Oregon Model

Zachary Siegel

November 17, 2020

Oregon has decriminalized all drugs—but it’s only the first step

Lab Rats

Erica X Eisen

July 22, 2020

The quest to privatize clinical labs threatens public health.

Aging in Place

Lucy Schiller

May 28, 2020

On Covid-19 and the lucrative world of “senior living”

Total Cuomo Show

Jess McAllen

April 30, 2020

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...

A Transition on Pause

Mark Van Streefkerk

April 20, 2020

Covid-19 has only laid bare that the “way things were before” was already a crisis for transgender people. 

Rocky Times in Tennessee

Rafia Zakaria

April 17, 2020

Immigrant doctors don't always see “America at its best.”

He Doesn’t Have a Plan for That

Timothy Faust

March 13, 2020

Joe Biden’s health care solution is a remix of failed ideas.

What the Doctors Ordered

Adam Gaffney

February 19, 2020

Inside the medical profession, the tide is turning toward Medicare for All.

How They Treat Us

Edna Bonhomme

November 06, 2019

In the NHS, black women and migrants still struggle to access adequate care