Vaccine hesitancy is complicating physicians' obligation to respect patient autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemic

New ethical issues are emerging during COVID-19 as doctors struggle with their obligations to ‘do no harm’ and respect patient autonomy.

Ryan Liu, Family Medicine Resident Physician, Penn State • conversation
March 24, 2022 • ~7 min

Lack of sleep is harming health care workers – and their patients

To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.

Soomi Lee, Assistant Professor of Aging Studies, University of South Florida • conversation
May 17, 2021 • ~11 min

My university will be getting COVID-19 vaccines soon – here's how my team will get doses into arms

Health systems around the US are on the cusp of receiving COVID-19 vaccines. At the end of this months-long effort are the nitty-gritty details of how health care providers are giving people the vaccine.

Desi Kotis, Associate Dean and Professor of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco • conversation
Dec. 11, 2020 • ~7 min

Amid a raging pandemic, the US faces a nursing shortage. Can we close the gap?

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.

Rayna M Letourneau, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida • conversation
Nov. 20, 2020 • ~8 min

Health insurers are starting to roll back coverage for telehealth – even though demand is way up due to COVID-19

Widely adopted in the US when pandemic precautions kept people home, telehealth faces a challenge as insurance coverage changes, right when its popularity had surged.

Steve Davis, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Leadership, West Virginia University • conversation
Oct. 27, 2020 • ~8 min

How one community improved COVID-19 nursing home care with collaboration and communication

A new approach is making a big difference in Virginia.

Laurie Archbald-Pannone, Associate Professor Medicine, Geriatrics, University of Virginia • conversation
Aug. 14, 2020 • ~6 min

Healthcare workers are still coming under attack during the coronavirus pandemic

The pandemic illustrates that attacks against healthcare can -- and do -- happen everywhere.

Larissa Fast, Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Studies, University of Manchester • conversation
April 28, 2020 • ~7 min

Healthcare workers and coronavirus: behind the stiff upper lip we are highly vulnerable

The coronavirus pandemic is placing immense mental and physical pressures on NHS staff.

Miriam Taegtmeyer, Professor of Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine • conversation
April 8, 2020 • ~13 min

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