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Top Hospitals Promote Unproven Therapies
Is medicine with a side of mysticism still medicine? Hospitals affiliated with Yale, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and others seem to think so.
Female Docs Don’t Give Grand Rounds as Often as Men
The grand rounds podium is a coveted perch in medicine, a place where clinical leaders showcase their expertise—it’s also one women don’t reach as often as men.
The Immigration Ban and The Physician Workforce
Harvard and MIT economists analyzed data regarding the contribution of physicians from banned countries to the health care workforce in the U.S.
With Role Models, Can Minority Students Change Medicine’s Racial Imbalance?
The challenge is figuring out how to get more minorities into the field.
Teaching Medical Students to Challenge ‘Unscientific’ Racial Categories
Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit of uncomfortable advice: Embrace racial stereotypes.
Patients Expect Doctors to Help Share Health Records with Other Providers
There’s a fundamental shift towards patients having more control of their data and more say in how those data move.
3 Ways to Mitigate Implicit Bias in the Exam Room
Concrete steps that can be taken to make patients more comfortable in the exam room.
Who Treats You Matters
Some ER doctors are three times more likely than others to prescribe opioids.