5+ day, 27+ min ago   (882+ words) Hartman is a pediatrician, a father, and the director of pediatrics at Yehowa Medical Services in Los Angeles. “Can we talk … in private?” The man was nervous, hands wringing like a little boy in trouble, though he was perhaps a…...

6+ day, 28+ min ago   (125+ words) Ah, Doritos: a classic farm-to-table food right up there with heirloom tomatoes, organic roasted chicken, and artisanal cheese boards sourced from local cows greeted each morning by name. At least that’s what new marketing for the tangy chips seems to…...

6+ day, 28+ min ago   (753+ words) By Arthur L. Caplan In March 1986, Mary Beth Whitehead and her husband went to a New Jersey hospital and kidnapped a baby girl. She had given birth to the girl three days earlier. They took the infant to Florida, launching the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (542+ words) Pandya is a general pediatrician in Philadelphia. The father cradled his newborn daughter as we reviewed routine infant care. Her mother, still recovering from childbirth, joined by video from home. He held his daughter with the tentative confidence and unmistakable…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (527+ words) Wallace is an epidemiologist, researcher, and a professor at University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. The White House fact sheet accompanying President Trump’s executive order, which he signed Monday, makes a claim worth examining: that most peer nations…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) Tsioulias is a second-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine. The nurses had warned me not to expect much. They hadn’t seen her smile in weeks, they said, sounding as though they’d already given up. Her room was…...

4+ week, 29+ min ago   (350+ words) By J. Todd R. Lawrence and Madison A. Kesler When we were children, it wasn’t unusual to hear about a kid wiping out on a bike, skateboard, or roller skates and coming home with scrapes, bruises, and occasionally broken bones that needed to…...

4+ week, 29+ min ago   (274+ words) I am always vigilant for bleeding — but today I am also uneasy. My patient has made it clear that she does not consent to blood products, even in an emergency. She will not risk receiving blood from a donor who…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (322+ words) The approach to paying obstetricians and midwives is changing. These changes will likely raise the cost of childbirth, with no guarantee of better maternity outcomes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will release the relative payment for each of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (265+ words) By Camille A. Clare and Lisa G. Hofler In fact, the bundled payment’s impacts have been widespread: It has complicated billing for patients and clinicians, limited access to care, cut back the ability to provide patients with more personalized care, and slowed…...