Alone at the hands of healthcare: hospital visitor policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
March 2021, a phone call from Caleb Iness: “Hey Audra, my friend’s dad is in the hospital with a stroke and no one can visit
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Policywise
Screening and treating food insecurity in the clinic setting: a starting point
Imagine what it would be like if you opened your cupboards or refrigerator and found barely enough food to pull a single meal together. What
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Environmental justice: How physical, social, and structural surroundings impact health
The environment—everything from the water we drink to the conditions in which we live—impacts health. Environmental justice is a broad term or movement that at
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How to protect patients’ rights and abide by mental health laws
How do you get consent for mental health services for psychoactive medications (i.e. medication with the capability to alter mood, anxiety, behavior or cognitive processes)
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Reimagine what our world’s potential can be
What more can we do to make a difference, not only in our own lives but in the lives of people all over the world?
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Reframe what it means to achieve in life and promote your own health
Our world is changing at an alarmingly rapid pace and each of us are changing as well. Two recent talks as part of Baylor College
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Reboot your thinking about mental health, the future of our health and health security
How willing are you to reboot the way you have always done things? Our society is currently experiencing a reboot – challenging basic assumptions about
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Ethics in a post-COVID world
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of ethical challenges in the healthcare setting. Ethical concerns include triage decisions, shortages of key resources, hospital visitor
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Revisions to CDC opioid guidelines and reflections from a pain specialist
Last month, the CDC backed down on strict opioid guidelines amid backlash from providers and chronic pain patients. As a pain specialist, I’ve seen firsthand
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Humility, flexibility, and resilience: applying global health experience locally
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected health institutions, plunging well-resourced health systems into an unfamiliar state of relative resource limitations. The U.S. leads the world in
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