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Why Changes Could Worsen Drug Epidemic

In a recent article, I made the case against “Trumpcare” for our general health care system. As a psychiatrist, I now focus on the impact that President Donald Trump’s health policies could have on individuals, families and communities affected by use and abuse of drugs, especially opioids (including prescription pills like OxyContin and Vicodin as […]

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Travel Ban’s Impact on Healthcare

(CNN) — The White House’s travel ban encompassing seven majority-Muslim countries is a blunt instrument that’s already wreaking havoc and the impact is already being disproportionately felt in American health care. The administration emphasizes it’s preventing only a “small percentage” of global travelers from entering or leaving the country, but our hospitals rely on a […]

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Doctors Speak Out Against Trump

On January 21st, the day of the Women’s March on Washington, I was working in the hospital as a resident physician assigned to the weekend shift. In some ways, it was like any other day on call. I rounded on patients in the morning, managed medical issues during the day, and evaluated new patients in […]

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Another Casualty of Ban: Medical Training and Rural Healthcare

The chaos among immigrant families and at airports wreaked nationwide by President Trump’s executive order barring nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States has been well documented. Not as well understood are the effects his order will have on U.S. medical training and healthcare, especially in poor and rural neighborhoods. Ahmad Masri […]

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What Trump Can Do to Fix Healthcare

My friend Patrick Spain, a serial internet entrepreneur, now runs a tele-medicine company called First Stop Health to which I subscribe. In other words, all of the flus, backaches, rashes, passing infections, and 24-hour viruses, the stuff of most doctor visits, are, in my house, handled by a telephone call. Call a number, describe your […]

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Will Paul Ryan’s Idea Work for Pre-Existing Ailments?

The pre-existing conditions issue played a central role in the design of the Affordable Care Act, and dealing with this issue appropriately in any ACA replacement plan will be instrumental to the achievement of stable and sustainable individual and small group health insurance markets. House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans’ June 2016 Better Way […]

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A Modest Proposal Post-Obamacare

It looks increasingly like one of President Donald Trump’s first actions will be to end the individual mandate which requires all Americans to have health insurance. Conservative media like Breitbart and the Drudge Report are cheering this as a return to freedom, and it is indeed as we will be free to make our own […]

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Ending Disparities Must Start at the Top

Among the many lessons from the fractious presidential election is the manifest need for a national dialogue on what it means to be a diverse, inclusive society. There are myriad threads and entry points to such a discussion, but it might start with our health care system. Despite decades of reports, the formation of organizations […]

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“Risk Pools” Will Be Buzzword for Obama Repeal

In the national health insurance debate, repeal is the word on everyone’s lips, as in “the repeal of Obamacare.” But soon enough, “risk pools” will be the new buzzword. And there are some very potent reasons why. For all of the GOP’s and Donald Trump’s bashing of Obamacare, there are two provisions of the ACA […]

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We Need “Single Payer”

At his press conference Wednesday at Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump said that as soon as the Senate approves his pick for health secretary, he will unveil a “repeal and replace” plan for the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare.” He gave no hints at the details of Trumpcare, other than to say the country […]

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Bernie Sanders: Trump Must Rescue Obamacare or Admit Lies

It didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medic300are, make massive cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood. At the […]

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Adding Diversity to Clinical Trials

In a previous post, I described why I enrolled in a clinical trial at Stanford to treat my Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But I didn’t share the result: I received radiation therapy and chemotherapy — instead of the standard treatment of exploratory abdominal surgery — and I’m confident it helped me to be cancer free for the […]

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