Early voting has already begun in Massachusetts, and one of the questions Massachusetts voters will face on the ballot is Question 1, which creates mandatory statewide maximum nurse-to-patient ratios for hospitals and other health care facilities. There is only one other state that has a similar law, and that is California. It's a confusing proposal …
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The Google Doodle this morning is honoring the birthday of Dr. Virginia Apgar. She was truly one of the most remarkable physicians in the history of medicine. Read her story in Dr. Atul Gawande's 2006 New Yorker article "The Score": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/09/the-score After graduating from the surgical residency at Columbia, she was told by her department chairman, …
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I write occasionally for GomerBlog, which is a satirical medicine news site—basically, The Onion for medicine. Here's my latest post, about our obsession with the antibiotic azithromycin, better known as the "Z-Pack," and why we need to stop using it so much: http://gomerblog.com/2018/04/a-break-up-letter-to-the-z-pack/
Last year, during the height of the debate over the Affordable Care Act and the future of Medicaid, I published an op-ed in STAT News, telling my story and the story of one of my patients. You can read it here: https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/08/medicaid-health-care-public-assistance/
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