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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
Doctors Aren’t Burned Out from Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System, Feb 5 2023, The New York Times, Eric Reinhart
The Disillusionment of a Rikers Island Doctor, The New Yorker, March 24, 2022, Rachael Bedard
Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds, The New York Times, Oliver Whang, Sept 29, 2022
Physician Burnout
New Survey Reveals 55% of Physicians Know a Physician Who Considered, Attempted or Died by Suicide, Aug 5 2021, The Physicians Foundation
What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing, The Atlantic, May 28, 2022, Ed Yong
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per encounter using EHRs
Healthcare Crisis in the United States
Potentially Preventable Deaths from Five Leading Causes of Death – United States 2008-2010, Medscape, 2014
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA, The Lancet, Feb 15, 2020
Inequality and the health-care system in the USA, The Lancet, April 8, 2017
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
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
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.
Shortage of Healthcare Workers
Why Health-care Workers are Quitting in Droves, November 16, 2021, The Atlantic, Ed Yong,
‘I Am Worth It”: Why Thousands of Doctors in America Can’t Get a Job, The New York Times, Feb 19, 2021, Emma Goldberg
Addressing the Health Care Staffing Shortage, Definitive Healthcare, Oct 2022
Pushed to Their Limit, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice, JAMA Network, March 30, 2022, Jennifer Abbasi
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
Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978, Minnesota Press, 2014, Jenna Lloyd
Ronald Regan radio address on socialized medicine
Inside the American Medical Association’s Fight Over Single-Payer Health Care, The New Yorker, Feb 22, 2022, Clifford Marks
The Blind Spot in Medicare for All, The Nation, May 12, 2022, Eric Reinhart
Path of Transformation
The Hippocratic Underground: Civil Disobedience and Health Care Reform, The Hastings Center Report, Jan-Feb 2005, Robert Macauley
Structural medicine: towards and economy of care, The Lancet, April 20, 2021, Eric Reinhart, Daniel Dawes, Aletha Maybank
How Doctors Care Use Medical Billing to Sabotage Abortion Bans, Slate, Aug 16, 2022, Eric Reinhart
More physicians unionize in the face of burnout, consolidation, Axios, Nov 7, 2022, Arielle Dreher
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.