Patients are increasingly experiencing what’s known as administrative harm – those unintended but very real consequences arising from administrative decisions, made far upstream, that directly influence how doctors practice.
By Marisha Burden
Read MoreReports of hot-car fatalities are making headlines across the United States, prompting consideration of technological means to keep people and pets safer when temperatures rise.
Category: In the News
Read MoreDecency is putting summer hiring on hiatus in 2025. Here are some statistics and words of advice for future applicants.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreIf you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how could you do it?
By Chandler Bauder and Aly Fathy
Read MoreFrom discussions on driver health to new uses for amyloid fibrils and unsafe drugs, here are some of the stories making headlines in March.
Category: In the News
Read MoreThis past Valentine’s Day, a damaged box of chocolates highlighted an area for improvement—in the healthcare system.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreWhat are the most common inaccuracies in medical records? How often do these errors have consequences for the patient?
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreParasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies.
By Bill Sullivan
Read MoreDecency LLC’s issue summary on healthcare spending considers factors influencing—and implications of—the high cost of healthcare in the United States.
Category: Issue Summaries
Read MoreAmericans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News
Read MoreWhere are pressure or coercion seen today in medicine? What forms do they take?
Category: In the News
Read MoreSome states are seeking a better balance with respect to mandated reporting. The reasons include disproportionate harms and too many unfounded reports.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreComplex systems are vulnerable to cascading failures. This can be true of financial networks, power grids, computer networks—and the healthcare system. How can healthcare providers avoid the snowball effect?
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreHeadlines highlighting the UN’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 are not the only ones to show wide global disparities in access to food. Here are some of the stories making headlines in recent months.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreBy name, the Hippocratic Oath may be one of the most recognizable texts in medicine. But how many people, if asked, could pinpoint the “official” version, and how many could recite its contents? This may be a trick question.
Category: History of Medicine
Read MoreA new bill in Ohio would approve the use of nitrogen gas for executions and protect execution identifying information from disclosure.
Category: Legislation in Context
Read MoreAt the end of January, Alabama made headlines by becoming the first U.S. state to execute a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreThe purpose of life insurance is to provide a death benefit to beneficiaries when the insured individual dies. But what if the insured takes their own life? A seemingly simple legal clause—a term in an insurance contract—might have an important influence on public health.
By Alessandra Suuberg
Read MoreFrom Gaza, Ukraine, and the UK, here are some of the stories that made headlines this fall.
Category: In the News
Read MoreGuardianship is intended to protect individuals from exploitation and abuse. But the potential downsides include loss of control over personal decisions and finances, and the possibility that the arrangement will itself become abusive or be difficult to rescind.
By Alessandra Suuberg
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