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Getty; The Atlantic Why America Has So Few Doctors
As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services.
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TikTok; The Atlantic When Your Doctor Is on TikTok
On a platform rife with falsehoods, a cohort of health-care professionals has stepped in to correct them.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People
Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.
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Allison Dinner / Bloomberg / Getty Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Omicron Will Overwhelm America’s Emergency Rooms
Hospitals are already strained, and many health-care workers have little left to give.
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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty The New COVID Drugs Are a Bigger Deal Than People Realize
Vaccines are amazing, but people who become infected need effective treatments.
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Getty; The Atlantic Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter.
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Juanmonino / Getty; The Atlantic / Gabriela Pesqueira Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves
About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty; The Atlantic The Medical Establishment Embraces Leftist Language
New guidelines urge doctors to talk like social-justice ideologues. Whether patients understand them is beside the point.
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Shelby Knowles / KHN America Stopped Treating Health-Care Workers Like Heroes
Hospital staff say they're facing a violence crisis.
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Daniel Brenner / The New York Times / … How Scrubs Reinforce Sexist Double Standards
Female doctors have always dealt with appearance-related confusion and disrespect. That only got worse during the pandemic.
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Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp Timing Is Everything for Merck’s COVID Pill
The drug, molnupiravir, is named after Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir. But its power depends on reaching the right people, in the right time frame.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg / Getty When ‘Talk to Your Doctor’ Goes So, So Wrong
Vanishingly few people have legitimate reasons to avoid COVID-19 vaccination. Some say their doctors told them not to get vaccinated anyway.
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Getty; Dawid Markiewicz / Getty; The Atlantic Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.
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Bryan Anselm / Redux I’m a Black Doctor. My Mom Still Won’t Get Vaccinated.
I’m frustrated, but I can’t really blame her. Here’s why.
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Houston Cofield / Bloomberg / Getty Vaccine Refusers Risk Compassion Fatigue
After the horrors that health-care workers have endured during the pandemic, many are struggling to sympathize with people who won’t protect themselves.
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Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.
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Universal Images Group / Getty Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
The pandemic was a big social experiment that sent asthma attacks plummeting.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Next Major Challenge to the Affordable Care Act
The law’s opponents have a good chance of winning their next showdown, though it won’t threaten the law as a whole.
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Glasshouse Images / Getty; Adam Maida / The … The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
Aduhelm, the first new Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, may not work. But states and Medicare might pay billions of dollars for it anyway.
