This health policy consultant may have never cried in a doctor’s office before (“My doctor made me cry. It summed up everything that’s wrong with health care“), but I can practically guarantee that her doctor has.
Monkeypox is very different from COVID—and will require a very different vaccination approach. In the past three years, the world has weathered two very different global outbreaks, caused by two very different pathogens, under two sets of very different circumstances.
It has been predicted that at least 139,000 doctors will be needed by 2033, particularly in rural and low-income areas. In an attempt to address this need, states have been replacing physicians with non-physician health care providers and reducing physician oversight.
Angela Intili, MD, an ob/gyn, was used to seeing her medical malpractice insurance premium rise slightly every couple of years. But she was shocked by the drastic rise she recently experienced.
In March and April of 2020, as the coronavirus spread and people isolated in their homes, a doctor in San Diego boasted that he had his hands on a “miracle cure,” according to prosecutors — hydroxychloroquine.
The newly developed test focuses on the part of the immune system that confers long-term protection by prompting the body to “remember” the virus.
In a study involving 5,023 actions against the licenses of U.S. physicians, 76.3 percent were related to substance abuse, according to findings published June 3.
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