Introduction: Conflicts of Interest and the Trump Administration
We have been discussing the pervasiveness of conflicts of interest in health care for years. Recently, we have worried how conflicts of interest and corruption in health care could be combated under an administration with such severe conflicts of interest and corruption at the highest levels, most recently here.
President Trump
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
COVID-19: Could We Have Been More Ready?
We now see reports of how the US is short of either masks, gowns, doctors, hospital beds, ventilators, community health workers, tests, treatments, or some combination thereof, to manage the new COVID pandemic and the annual influenza season. We see Congress hustling to adopt a funding package to catch up with the gaps.
I just saw, as an attending physician on a busy urban internal medicine
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Guest Post: Coronavirus and the Finger of G-d
Health Care Renewal presents a guest post from Dr Michael Fine, a
writer, community organizer, and family physician. He is the chief
health strategist for the City of Central Falls, RI, and Senior Clinical
and Population Health Services Officer for Blackstone Valley Community
Health Care, Inc., and recipient of the Barbara Starfield Award, the
John Cunningham Award, and the Austin T. Levy
writer, community organizer, and family physician. He is the chief
health strategist for the City of Central Falls, RI, and Senior Clinical
and Population Health Services Officer for Blackstone Valley Community
Health Care, Inc., and recipient of the Barbara Starfield Award, the
John Cunningham Award, and the Austin T. Levy
Saturday, March 14, 2020
The Mother of All Mission-Hostile Management: During the Coronavirus Pandemic Trump Shows He is the Enemy of the Public's Health
Introduction: Health Care Dysfunction
We have been talking about health care dysfunction for a very long time, starting with a publication in 2003: Poses RM. A cautionary
tale: the dysfunction of American health care. Eur J Int Med 2003; 14(2): 123-130. (link here).
In that article, I postulated that US physicians were demoralized
because their core values were under threat, and
We have been talking about health care dysfunction for a very long time, starting with a publication in 2003: Poses RM. A cautionary
tale: the dysfunction of American health care. Eur J Int Med 2003; 14(2): 123-130. (link here).
In that article, I postulated that US physicians were demoralized
because their core values were under threat, and
Sunday, March 8, 2020
How Threats to Health Care Professionals' Core Values Lead to Moral Injury
Introduction: Threats to Core Values
In the late 1990s, my colleagues and I started noting a rising tide of what we then called physician dissatisfaction. One small clue was that physicians I met at meetings seemed to be responding to polite questions about their well-being with less enthusiastic responses. In the early 2000s, publications begin appearing about health care professionals'
In the late 1990s, my colleagues and I started noting a rising tide of what we then called physician dissatisfaction. One small clue was that physicians I met at meetings seemed to be responding to polite questions about their well-being with less enthusiastic responses. In the early 2000s, publications begin appearing about health care professionals'
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