First Opinion

First Opinion By Jesper Ke, Kate E. Lee, and Hueyjong Shih

In light of anti-Asian attacks, medicine needs to listen to Asian American trainees

First Opinion By Patrick Skerrett

A caregiver and physician discuss the financial implications of dementia

First Opinion By Brian Spisak

Vaccination certificates won’t end lockdown. Prosocial approaches will

First Opinion By Marynia Kolak

Adding social determinants gives public health maps a sense of place and time

First Opinion By David Hyun and Rachel Zetts

Many hospitalized Covid-19 patients are given antibiotics. That’s a problem

First Opinion By Marvin D. Seppala

Money from opioid lawsuits is urgently needed now

First Opinion By Madlaina Costa-Scharplatz, Peter Hovstadius, and Jacob LaPorte

Lessons from Nordic countries can accelerate the impact of AI in medicine

First Opinion By Robert Klitzman

How will people act after getting vaccinated? The complex psychology of safety

First Opinion By Sheldon Whitehouse and Sherrod Brown

Covid-19 makes ‘brutally clear’ why we need to add a public option for health insurance

First Opinion By Ann C. Greiner and Elizabeth Mitchell

Building back better requires strengthening primary care

First Opinion By Jonathan Shaffer

Biden should use emergency powers to license Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the WHO for global access

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Kara Zivin on seeing her own struggles during pregnancy reflected in Meghan Markle’s

Opinions+ By Krishanu Saha

A Biden-Harris Biomanufacturing Initiative could increase supplies of vaccines, therapeutics in one fell swoop

First Opinion By R. Sean Morrison and Mireille Jacobson

Palliative care works, so why is it rarely used? Follow the money

First Opinion By Adam W. Gaffney

We need to start thinking more critically — and speaking more cautiously — about long Covid

First Opinion By Nathaniel Hupert, Michael G. Klein, and John A. ("Jack") Muckstadt

Operations research advice for Covid-19 vaccination planners: think bigger, move faster

First Opinion By Donna Christensen, LaVarne A. Burton, and Gary A. Puckrein

Dialysis clinics should be able to vaccinate their patients on site

First Opinion By Jason Karlawish

The long, exhausting reach of dementia care

First Opinion By Clifford M. Marks

Make residency — and health care — more equitable by scrapping The Match

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine, rejecting Harvard, and a ‘life-altering’ decision

First Opinion By Chandra Bozelko

Prisons are long-term care facilities. So why don’t inmates get priority for Covid-19 vaccination?

First Opinion By Mark C. Fishman and Marc Kirschner

Trying to manage curiosity-driven science risks limiting discoveries

First Opinion By Jeff Turiczek

Addiction and behavioral health care workers should have access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines

First Opinion By Matthew Lane

Choosing the right director for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can help lower drug prices

First Opinion By Jacob S. Sherkow

Reining in drug patents isn’t a silver bullet against high drug prices

First Opinion By Steve Cohen

Instead of prior authorization, insurers should go back to the old ‘pay-and-chase’ model

First Opinion By Kara Zivin

Meghan Markle gave voice to the despair I once felt during pregnancy

First Opinion By Patrick Skerrett

Q&A with ‘Code Breaker’ author Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, patents, and more

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Walter Isaacson on CRISPR rivals and a Covid truce