"Medicine hasn’t always been a level playing field—for patients or doctors. For centuries, women faced barriers just for studying, practicing, or researching medicine. Yet a handful of trailblazers broke through discrimination to reshape healthcare, simultaneously forwarding feminism in the United States."

https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/women-who-changed-medicine

#healthcare #medicine #physicians #women #diversity #equity #inclusion

"Two prominent doctors from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down on Tuesday after a report found that staff members were discouraged from reporting abuse committed by Robert Hadden, who sexually assaulted hundreds of patients while employed at both institutions."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/nyregion/columbia-hospitals-hadden-resignation.html

#healthcare #MedEd #hospitals #physicians #misconduct #abuse #bioethics

"Thousands of primary care practices, a key gateway to the medical system, are fighting to remain financially viable — and independent.

In response, many are banding together to form Independent Physician Associations, or IPAs. The goal is to increase their market power, change the way they get paid, and retain control over how they treat patients."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/primary-care-independent-physicians-boost-market-power/

#healthcare #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #physicians #clinics #RuralHealth #business #industry

“I know it sounds crazy,” she said, but health care providers “need to start an underground network of how to get people care in their homes. Because letting people die at home or come close to death because they are terrified to go into the hospital, in 2026, is outrageous.”

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-underground-medical-care-networks/

#healthcare #hospitals #clinics #telehealth #HomeVisits #immigration #physicians #nurses #USpol

"For more than three decades, local physicians staffed emergency departments for an Oregon hospital system. In a few months, they will be replaced by an out-of-state corporate staffing firm."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/120167

#healthcare #hospitals #ER #EM #EmergencyMed #physicians #labor #business #PrivateEquity #oregon

"The New York attorney general is investigating Columbia University for its handling of allegations against Robert Hadden, a former university gynecologist who continued to work at one of its hospitals for weeks after his 2012 arrest on sex crimes...About 1,000 women have accused Mr. Hadden of sexually assaulting them during medical exams between 1993 and 2012. So far, Columbia has settled about $1 billion in claims."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/nyregion/columbia-hadden-sexual-assault-investigation.html

#healthcare #physicians #SexualAssault #MedEd

Physicians obviously cannot prevent death; at best, the can substitute one cause of death for another, one time of death for another, one manner of death for another.... In the end, medicine must fail to cure, though there is no similar restraint on the possibilities of care.
-- H. Tristram Engelhardt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HTristramEngelhardt #Death #Medicine #Mortality #Physicians

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