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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

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