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$2 Million Gene Therapy
An effective rare disease therapy is overshadowed by the cost, while pharma rakes in cash
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
West Texas Measles Outbreak
One in five kindergarteners in Gaines County schools has a non-medical vaccine exemption. Low vaccination rates prime the area for the easy, natural…
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Eggsactly What I Needed
A good laugh about 100,000 stolen eggs
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
5 Pioneering Women Behind the Drape
Trailblazing, innovating, and transforming patient care—meet the living women in anesthesiology who changed the profession.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗
Enhance the ethical care of all patients when immigration agents enter hospitals
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Broken Baby Bones
Unexplained injuries lead to NICU nurse arrest
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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New Year, Same Toxic Wellness Marketing
Healthism is the Pervasive, Profitable Misconception Shaping Our Resolutions
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Breaking from Chronic Stress of Doctoring
Taking much needed time away from the often unrelenting stress of caring for critically ill kids
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Curious Bioethics: December 7, 2024
Public response to CEO shooting, failure of self-regulation in medicine, being trans in America, medical/dental integration ethics
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
😷27 Gifts for Exhausted Healthcare Workers
A 2024 Gift List for the Hard-working Healthcare Workers You Love
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Curious Bioethics: November 24, 2024
IV fluid shortage, GA dismisses maternal mortality committee, abusive urologist sentenced
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Curious Bioethics: November 17, 2024
Bluesky, healthcare subsidies at risk, telemedicine extension, and more
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Conspiracy Theory Lover RFK Jr. to lead HHS
Anticipate a wild, dangerous reshaping of US public health
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
The Tolerance/Intolerance Divide
Rational Argument in Popper's Paradox of Tolerance
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Poppies & Propofol
Poppies & Propofol
Dr. Burgart pulls the curtain aside on the House of Medicine, revealing how injustice and politics impact patients—equipping you to discuss complex issues with wit, confidence, and clarity.
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