Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
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Security guards won’t protect paramedics and community nurses from violent patients. And in hospital, some security guards can unwittingly escalate violence, unless they’re specially trained.
Cuba is offering a compelling example of how we can take care of each other during the climate crisis with its work training doctors on Kiribati, a nation that is being devastated by climate change.
To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
It is not always easy to identify who needs palliative care.
Analysis of 228,000 comments shows that while surgeons are likely to be called ‘outstanding’ and ‘brilliant’, receptionists are branded ‘arrogant’ and ‘rude’. But it’s not because they do a bad job.
It takes about three years for safety problems to be identified in new drugs, newer drugs are almost always more expensive, and yet Canadian doctors still hand out hundreds of thousands of samples.
Physician Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for those he called ‘sexual intermediaries.’ His activism began before World War I – and ended only when the Nazis came to power.
Outed. Denied care. Openly harassed. These are just a few of the experiences reported by American transgender and non-binary individuals when seeking medical care or social services.
Patients may be at risk while chaperones fail to act impartially.
New analysis from the Migration Observatory suggests skilled visa could still be refused in the future despite recent moves to exempt doctors and nurses from the cap.
The US is currently short on 182 drugs and medical supplies. The problem isn’t new, but it’s frustrating health care workers.
To improve wait times for surgery, Canada needs to fix its health-care system. Developing a national seniors’ strategy would be a good place to start.
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
Being more caring could lead to more female doctors burning out.
Weight stigma at the doctors can be mentally and physically harmful.
The NHS funding formula is based on an unfair premise which is funnelling money away from the regions that need it most.
A scholar explains why there is no one answer. Some pain is devastating, and sometimes such pain responds well to opioids. On the other hand, there is evidence that some physicians overprescribe.
Laws like Title IX are supposed to shield athletes from abuse. But lax enforcement allows sports organizations to protect perpetrators over athletes.
Current cholesterol tests in the UK are outdated and are putting lives at risk.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Executive Dean of School, Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
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Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University