The Physician Shortage and Other News

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues in the headlines, including a powerful—but dangerous—new gene therapy, racial disparities in excess deaths during the COVID pandemic, and the limited insurance coverage for highly effective new obesity drugs.  Links: The Physician Shortage "Opening the Door Wider to International Medical Graduates—The Significance of a New Tennessee Law" "New Licensure Pathway for Some Internationally Trained Physicians" "Brain-drain and health care delivery in developing countries" "Talk of an Immigrant 'Invasion' Grows in Republican Ads and Speech" Subspecialty Expertise from AI "Towards Democratization of Subspeciality Medical Expertise" Gene Therapy "7 children developed blood cancer after Bluebird Bio gene therapy for rare neurological disease" National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Adrenoleukodystrophy An AI Warning from a Nobel Laureate Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics "Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He's Built" "Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs" Conflicts of Interest and the Role of Peer Reviewers "Medical journal peer reviewers are paid millions by industry, study finds" "Does industry funding equal conflict of interest? Often it does, Yale authors claim" COVID, Race, and Excess Deaths "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic" Insurance Coverage for GLP-1 Drugs KFF: 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey "The Miracle Weight-Loss Drug Is Also a Major Budgetary Threat" CDC: Adult Obesity Facts Mothers in Medicine "So Visibly a Mother" Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.