government
The Assault on Science
The memo came out on a Wednesday, and agencies had until 5 p.m. on Friday to scrub their websites of anything that might “promote or inculcate gender ideology.” As a result, hundreds of government websites were shorn of articles, pages, and data sets. The Trump administration is signaling its contempt for evidence-based science and its disregard for human health and life. More
Protecting Immigrant Patients
It was hardly two weeks after the election when a doctor in our clinic received a letter from one of her patients, an undocumented immigrant. The patient had diabetes and suffered from rotator cuff tendinitis, which makes reaching backward quite painful. “Is there any possibility you can write a letter,” she asked, “stating that if they handcuff me, can they please handcuff me with my hands in front of me?” As a physician, it was hard to read this without feeling sickened…. More
A Grave Prognosis for the Affordable Care Act
Shambolic “repeal and replace” attempts are no longer needed to render a grave prognosis for the Affordable Care Act, the law that provides medical coverage for 45 million Americans. The most virulent threats are proliferating in the judicial system. More
