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Healthcare Gentrification and Access to Care Equity: Results From a Scoping Review [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Persons living under the poverty threshold are negatively affected by the gentrification of neighborhoods and the healthcare gentrification. Methods: This scoping review answered the following questions: To what extent has the concept of healthcare gentrification been described in the health literature?

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" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Nursing shortage is a major issue for healthcare systems. A semi-structured interview guide based on Daouk-Öyry’s (2014) joint model of nurse absenteeism and turnover was used. The individual, interpersonal, occupational, organizational and national considerations underpinning their decision to quit were analysed.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. Created in consultation with emergency medicine professionals, the show aims to raise awareness and provide validation to frontline healthcare workers everywhere. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture.

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Direct Primary Care - Role for the Future of Healthcare

The Direct Doctors Difference

Looking back to 2014, when we began, there were less than 100. Doctors (and other types of “providers” of healthcare) are tasked with seeing 20-25 patients in an 8 hour day, writing notes that are geared toward insurance billing, and charging for every extra they can manage - all to make the corporate system more profitable.

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Vedolizumab Outperformed Infliximab in Real-World Outcomes

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Treatment sequences, outcomes, healthcare utilization, and costs in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases requiring advanced treatment—real world comparative effectiveness from German claims data,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Gastroenterology by Dignass et al.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue. Published June 10, 2014.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law

The PR first sets out to establish that it has authority to regulate in vitro diagnostic “test systems” as devices, and not just the system’s individual components, such as reagents, instruments, specimen collection devices, and software. Specific features of the PR will foreseeably yield new bases for challenge.