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Physician Shortages are a Century-Old Problem. Where Care is Delivered and Who Delivers It Will Continue to Change
Earlier this year, American life expectancy dropped to a two-decade low of 76.4. Infant and maternal mortality rate drove some of this drop, but so too did a lack of access to care. For the richest major country in the world, the number of physicians as a ratio to population has declined along with life expectancy.…
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Online Disease Communities are Here to Stay. What makes them so unique?
Sickness has historically been an isolating experience. Contagious illness was often quarantined. Social stigma led to the ill being ostracized. The inability to work depleted economic resources and disrupted socio-economic support networks. Illness also limited the ability of many to be physically present in the community. Non-profits and advocacy groups have helped remedy many of…
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Why the History of Medicine is Valuable in the Post-Pandemic Brand Landscape
Or How A Future Twitter-Warrior’s Discovery of HeLa Cells Is Going to Ruin a Campaign In the past, the history of medicine often sounded a triumphant narrative: a history of great (white) men discovering and implementing a series of scientific and clinical breakthroughs building upon one another for the improvement of humanity. In more recent…
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What is the Golden Age of Medicine? And Why We Still Live with Its Long Shadow
And most importantly, why it means we should be dreaming bigger about new models for care Much of our conversation since the pandemic on either side of the political aisle have cast medicine and public health as suffering a fall from grace from the height of their successes. Once upon a time, medicine was trustworthy,…
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Why Do Commentators Dwell on the Relationship Between Conflict and Medicine?
There is a long thread in the history of medicine that – should you pull on it – claims that war drove innovation in medicine. These assertions go back to the very basis of western medicine. Hippocrates famously wrote that “War is the only proper school for a surgeon.” In the premodern and early modern…
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