Medical System
Healthcare in the U.S. Compared to Other Countries in 2021
By Eric C. Schneider, Arnav Shah, Michelle M. Doty, Roosa Tikkanen, Katharine Fields, Reginald D. Williams II, for The Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 4, 2021. The United States trails far behind other high-income countries on measures… Read More
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019: Higher Spending, Worse Outcomes
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other high-income country but has the lowest life expectancy. The U.S. has the highest suicide rate among wealthy nations. By Roosa Tikkanen and Melinda K. Abrams,
Our Broken Medical System Threatens Patients
Our profit-driven healthcare system is broken and your life, as well as your savings, are at risk. Unexpected medical bills, such as from out-of-network doctors who people thought were in-network, visits to the ER, hospital stays,
A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation
By SARAH BODEN, for WESA-FM, November 4, 2020. First-year medical student Sean Sweat “didn’t want to tiptoe around” issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version… Read More
Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT News, Jul 21, 2020. When dermatologist Jenna Lester learned that rashes on skin and toes were a symptom of Covid-19, she started searching the medical literature for images of what… Read More
2020 Scorecard on Health System Performance by State
A state-by-state report measuring access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and health disparities across the United States by David C. Radley, Sara R. Collins, and Jesse C. Baumgartner for The Commonwealth Fund. See...
State Medical Boards and Health Department Websites
CONTACT A STATE MEDICAL BOARD CONTACT A STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Looking for the website of a state or territorial health department? The resources below link to health departments in all...
State Medical Records Laws
Medical records privacy laws outline patients’ rights to secrecy of their medical information, and the circumstances under which that information may (or must) be disclosed. Choose a link from the list below for state-specific laws...
Health System Grinding Good Docs Out of Existence, Harming Patients
By Melissa Bailey, KHN.org, FEBRUARY 4, 2020. Excerpts from the original article. Dr. Keith Corl was working in a Las Vegas emergency room when a patient arrived with chest pain. The patient, wearing his street clothes,… Read More