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Burnout Threatens Primary Care Workforce and Doctors’ Mental Health

Burnout in the health care industry is a widespread problem that long predates the covid-19 pandemic, though the chaos introduced by the coronavirus’s spread made things worse.

We Have Inadvertently Built Cultural Discrimination Into Our Healthcare Systems

We build and use discriminatory Healthcare Systems. Unintentional by design, these systems propagate inequality in patient care and promote racial disparities.

Why Improving Women’s Health Around the World is Urgent

Women often provide for their families, communities, and the people around them. If women are healthier, it impacts everyone around them and eventually leads to healthier newborns, children, families, households, and communities. Leaders who prioritize women’s health can overcome gender inequality and improve the overall population’s health.

What’s Been So Maddening (and Humbling) About Covid-19

A doctor writes about his frustration with Covid-19 and how humbling the experience has been