Category: Health Care
Tricare Patients Fear Losing Preferred Health Care Providers Amid Contract Transition
Psychologist Shannon Curry has treated military members and their families for 11 years, helping them deal with trauma, grief, pain…
Health care’s colossus, bird flu, and gender-affirming surgery
Good morning, it’s the last Morning Rounds of the year! On Friday, as I closed out of the document where…
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies…
Luigi Mangione, UnitedHealthcare, and the American Health Care Scam
A gun with three bullets; one man dead on the pavement, one man in custody. From a distance, the death…
Column: Making a Hampton Roads health care wish list for Santa
Hampton Roads needs more doctors and a faster pathway from school to practice for medical students, Armistead Williams, M.D., and…
Our Healthcare System Is Broken. Can Technology Help Heal It?
It shouldn’t have taken a tragedy to launch a national conversation about our broken healthcare system and the pain it…
Telehealth helps people get health care, but access may soon be in limbo
Citations B. Chan et al. Buprenorphine discontinuation in telehealth-only treatment for opioid use disorder: A longitudinal cohort analysis. Journal of…
Poor health care access devastates Black families across city and suburb lines
The conversation about health in our community needs to change. While statistics tell one story, the lived experiences of those…
The moral dimension to America’s flawed health care system
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has set off soul-searching among many Americans. Part of that reflection is about…
The health care deal is in jeopardy
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign…
