STAT

Health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters

A medical school scrubs mention of gender and racial health inequalities from its websites. A city health system advises its workers not to use their legal rights to protect patients or co-workers but ...
Medical Xpress

Laws on health care worker rights align with global standards with room for improvement, finds study

More than half of laws and policies on health care workers' rights align with international standards, according to a study published December 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public ...
Forbes

Mass Deportation Of Health Workers Would Put Patients At Risk

Wendy Estrada, a Honduran immigrant who is training to move from a housecleaner to a certified nursing assistant talks to a patient. (Photo by Barbara Davidson/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) For ...
The Hill

When it comes to medical privacy, injured workers have it worse than prisoners

Google employees were recently required to share personal health information with a third-party AI tool or else forego health benefits. Amid significant employee concerns for medical privacy, Google ...
STAT

Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid

Stone is a retired infectious disease physician, medical journalist, and author. Feinberg is professor of medicine/infectious disease and professor of behavioral medicine and psychiatry at the West ...
Kaleido Scope

Medical social workers: 7 surprising facts about the critical role they have in patient care

This National Social Work Month, social workers from across UAB have a message for the community: medical social workers are an integral part of the health system. Social workers can be found in ...