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April 2025

America Exported Measles to Mexico. Now What?
The U.S. is Fumbling Our Measles Response.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Transplants, NIH, Conspiracy Theories, the Trolley Problem & the Milky Seas
What I'm Reading, Watching, and Loving
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Dr. Christine Grady, NIH Bioethics Leader and Consent Expert, “Resassigned” in Purge
The Dismantling of NIH Bioethics Paves the Way for Unethical Research
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA

February 2025

$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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January 2025

December 2024

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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November 2024

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
Curious Bioethics: November 10, 2024
Election bioethics, American Detox, Nursing Ethics Conference, work for Don't Clock Out
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Responding to My Moral Injury
by reading a lot
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
"Tell me about despair"
Grieve, gather strength, and lean into what matters most
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA

October 2024

September 2024

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