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MARCH 15, 2023

After two years as host of the “First Opinion Podcast” and many more as the founding editor of STAT’s expansive, authoritative First Opinion platform, Pat Skerrett put down his editing pen and microphone to start a new chapter — retirement. Read the rest…

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APRIL 6, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “For national security, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “ Dental care is in crisis.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The 22nd year of the 21st century, like most years before it, had its share of turbulence, offering opinion/perspective authors a wealth of topics to write about.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

First Opinion , STAT’s platform for opinion and perspective essays, welcomes submissions about the biopharma industry, medical science and health care, and other topics related to the life sciences writ large. Here are general guidelines for submissions: Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor  here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “ Pumping milk at JPM was a nightmare.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “ U.S.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In a special event as part of STAT’s Open Doors initiative, the “First Opinion Podcast” was recorded live this week in front of an audience with returning guest Jay Baruch.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here , or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” medical student Amelia Mercado and her professor J. But despite an increased awareness of mental health on campuses across the country, there are still barriers keeping many students from accessing the care that they need.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a podcast exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health care system. To

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APRIL 26, 2024

Hospitals and health care systems across the United States have long been expected to provide patients with high-quality, cutting-edge care and outcomes — while staying cost-effective.

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JUNE 28, 2023

On the latest episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” oncologist Kristen Rice explains that drug shortages have been happening for several years but have been progressively worsening in the past few months. Drug shortages are a growing problem in the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health care system. To

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APRIL 14, 2024

As diligent taxpayers breathe a sigh of relief that the hassle of filing their tax forms is over for another year, the Internal Revenue Service continues to let most U.S. hospitals pay nothing in federal taxes. It’s time for Congress to take a hard look at the IRS’s hand in health care.

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APRIL 27, 2024

“Former HHS secretaries: Congress should adopt site-neutral payments for health care,” by Alex Azar and Kathleen G. Sebelius As a practicing oncologist, I wholeheartedly agree with the former HHS secretaries’ call to expand site-neutral payment policy. It is a commonsense reform, independent of one’s political leanings.

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APRIL 16, 2024

The face of autism was once predominantly white. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last year that the prevalence of autism across all racial and ethnic groups is reaching parity.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services has for decades ignored its responsibility to enforce civil rights laws, as I argued last year in a First Opinion essay.

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APRIL 5, 2024

When Francis Collins, then-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, testified before Congress in 2003 about the significance of sequencing the human genome that year, he introduced personalized medicine as a new concept.

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APRIL 29, 2024

“Going to medical Spanish class really isn’t worth my time. I’d rather use the time to do research,” one of my classmates told me during the first week of my first year of medical school. Such a comment was my introduction to the publish-or-perish environment that is increasingly pervasive amongst medical students.

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JULY 25, 2023

A STAT Report released Tuesday, “ Patients speak out: learning about health care first-person ,” brings those voices to readers in a collection of essays originally published as First Opinion columns.    Read the rest…

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MAY 31, 2023

“Over a quarter of cancer patients delay medical care , go without care, or make changes in their cancer treatment because of cost,” Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and co-director of the Health Care Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in a recent First Opinion essay.

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MAY 24, 2023

As Sanjay Basu wrote in a recent First Opinion, hospitals are using so-called “screen and refer” systems to identify people with social needs, like those who are experiencing domestic violence or hunger. But that frustrating experience is made even worse by a new trend in health care.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

News & World Report’s ranking system says the best American medical schools score high in areas that include the quality of the school’s curriculum (based on the opinions of deans, school administrators, and hospital residency directors); grade-point averages and standardized test scores of incoming students; student-to-faculty ratios; (..)

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JULY 18, 2023

As people become increasingly familiar with artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT, it’s only a matter of time before patients turn to these tools in search of a diagnosis or second opinion. Change is already on the horizon.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Every so often, the conversations that people in health care have become so pervasive that they dominate the zeitgeist, intersecting with mainstream media and popular culture. Oprah Winfrey’s recent ABC special “Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution” is a good example of this.

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APRIL 17, 2024

When my son Conall took his life at age 17, it was devastating to me and our entire family. Conall was a caring, empathetic, and bright young man, but he had also struggled for many years with anxiety and depression. Like many kids his age, much of his life revolved around social media.

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MAY 1, 2024

Health care providers are in an acute financial situation. Record-high wages required to attract and retain talent coupled with price inflation not seen since the early 1980s are driving higher costs, while reimbursement and federal policies limit providers’ ability to cover expenses. Adding

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But his opinion of the agency changed when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive disease that damages nerves in the brain and spinal cord. During his long career as a pediatric oncologist and cancer researcher, William Woods thought highly of the FDA’s work evaluating and approving new cancer drugs.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval program aims to speed “approval of drugs that treat serious conditions, and fill an unmet medical need based on a surrogate endpoint” of overall survival (progression-free survival).

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APRIL 26, 2024

It’s another busy day in my spine surgery clinic when my phone rings. Patients are waiting, but I’d be unwise to put off the caller: a physician calling from a health insurance company.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When I accompany my father to his regular cardiologist appointment in Puerto Rico, worry and sadness always come along with us. While treatment has kept his health stable, I am still troubled that he always has to ask his doctor for medication samples. If he lived in any of the 50 states, Medicare would have provided coverage for his medical needs.

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