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Library 📚
The voices for change can be found across time and across mediums. Medicine Forward has gathered a reference library that gives perspective and hope to fuel our shared transformation agenda.
Physician Perspectives
Why Doctors Should Organize, New Yorker, Aug 5, 2019, Eric Topol, MD https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-doctors-should-organize
Doctors Aren’t Burned Out from Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System, Feb 5 2023, The New York Times, Eric Reinhart https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/doctors-universal-health-care.html
The Disillusionment of a Rikers Island Doctor, The New Yorker, March 24, 2022, Rachael Bedard https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-disillusionment-of-a-rikers-island-doctor
Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds, The New York Times, Oliver Whang, Sept 29, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/health/doctor-burnout-pandemic.html
Physician Burnout
New Survey Reveals 55% of Physicians Know a Physician Who Considered, Attempted or Died by Suicide, Aug 5 2021, The Physicians Foundation https://physiciansfoundation.org/press-releases/new-survey-reveals-55-of-physicians-know-a-physician-who-considered-attempted-or-died-by-suicide/
What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing, The Atlantic, May 28, 2022, Ed Yong https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/hospitalization-covid-healthcare-burnout/629892/
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per encounter using EHRs https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2758843/physician-time-spent-using-electronic-health-record-during-outpatient-encounters
Healthcare Crisis in the United States
Potentially Preventable Deaths from Five Leading Causes of Death – United States 2008-2010, Medscape, 2014 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824495_2
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA, The Lancet, Feb 15, 2020 https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext
Inequality and the health-care system in the USA, The Lancet, April 8, 2017 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30398-7/fulltext
Profits Over Patients: They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay, The New York Times, Sept 2022, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html
Profits Over Patients: How a Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis, The New York Times, Dec 15, 2022, Rebecca Robbins, Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/business/hospital-staffing-ascension.html
Fixing Prior Authorization: Twitter. October 25, 2022. Political Science professor and author of US health policy book, Coverage Denied, which looks at health and economic impacts of insurers' denial of prescribed care including via prior authorization. Twitter Spaces interview with Miranda Yaver, PhD
Shortage of Healthcare Workers
Why Health-care Workers are Quitting in Droves, November 16, 2021, The Atlantic, Ed Yong, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/the-mass-exodus-of-americas-health-care-workers/620713/
‘I Am Worth It”: Why Thousands of Doctors in America Can’t Get a Job, The New York Times, Feb 19, 2021, Emma Goldberg https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/health/medical-school-residency-doctors.html
Addressing the Health Care Staffing Shortage, Definitive Healthcare, Oct 2022 https://www.definitivehc.com/sites/default/files/resources/pdfs/Addressing-the-healthcare-staffing-shortage.pdf
Pushed to Their Limit, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice, JAMA Network, March 30, 2022, Jennifer Abbasi https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2790791#:~:text=Pushed%20to%20Their%20Limits%2C%201%20in%205%20Physicians%20Intends%20to%20Leave%20Practice,-Jennifer%20Abbasi&text=On%20the%20same%20day,effects%20on%20primary%20care%20practices.
History of Our Current System
A critique of clinical economy: reassessing value and care during covid-19, BMJ, July 2020, Eric Reinhart and Daniel Brauner https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2878
Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978, Minnesota Press, 2014, Jenna Lloyd https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/health-rights-are-civil-rights
Ronald Regan radio address on socialized medicine https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreagansocializedmedicine.htm
Inside the American Medical Association’s Fight Over Single-Payer Health Care, The New Yorker, Feb 22, 2022, Clifford Marks https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/the-fight-within-the-american-medical-association
The Blind Spot in Medicare for All, The Nation, May 12, 2022, Eric Reinhart https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/fee-health-care-ama/
Path of Transformation
The Hippocratic Underground: Civil Disobedience and Health Care Reform, The Hastings Center Report, Jan-Feb 2005, Robert Macauley https://www.jstor.org/stable/3528215?origin=crossref
Structural medicine: towards and economy of care, The Lancet, April 20, 2021, Eric Reinhart, Daniel Dawes, Aletha Maybank https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00937-5/fulltext
How Doctors Care Use Medical Billing to Sabotage Abortion Bans, Slate, Aug 16, 2022, Eric Reinhart https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/doctors-defy-abortion-bans-medical-billing.html
More physicians unionize in the face of burnout, consolidation, Axios, Nov 7, 2022, Arielle Dreher https://www.axios.com/2022/11/07/more-physicians-join-unions
Fixing Prior Authorization: Twitter. September 22, 2022. Vice president for digital health at UCSF talks fixing prior authorization by focusing on audits and outliers instead of roadblocks for everyone — and putting data to work. Twitter Spaces interview with Aaron Neinstein, MD