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A look at issues related to health care workers, from increasing threats of violence to mental health concerns, from financial stress to staffing. STAT explores what’s behind the growing shortage of healthcare workers in the United States and the strength of those who remain on the front lines of medical care

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Hospitals Brittany Trang

Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask

Business Brittany Trang

Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative agreement with workers

Health Annalisa Merelli

Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

First Opinion Tochi Iroku-Malize, Sandy Chung, Verda Hicks, Omar T. Atiq, Ira P. Monka and Petros Levounis

Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

First Opinion Mical Raz and Naftali Kaminski

Doctors in the U.S. can learn a lot about advocacy and activism from their Israeli counterparts

First Opinion Michelle Simpson Tuegel

How health care systems can protect patients from sexual assault by providers

Hospitals Deborah Balthazar

Female surgeons have lower rates of long-term adverse outcomes than their male peers, study finds

Health Isabella Cueto

Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain

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Health Associated Press

Attacks at US medical centers show why health care is one of the nation’s most violent fields

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Why physicians should let patients call them by their first names

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First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Listen: Dance helped this nurse heal from trauma. Now she’s bringing it to others

First Opinion Tara Rynders

Health care systems must stop exploiting nurses’ tender hearts and begin supporting them

First Opinion Andrea Flynn and Yvonne Yen Liu

California should become the first state to offer a special minimum wage to health care workers

First Opinion Tiffany Cornwall

How predominantly white hospital leadership teams hurt care for people of color

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court

First Opinion Wendy Dean

How the conversation about moral injury in health care is changing

First Opinion Peter A. Young

PAs need a new name, but ‘physician associate’ won’t cut it. Here’s a better idea

Exclusive Usha Lee McFarling

‘A target on my back’: New survey shows racism is a huge problem in nursing

First Opinion Rebecca Gale

More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients

First Opinion Jeffrey Singer

One simple fix for the primary care shortage: assistant physicians

First Opinion Vanessa Kerry and Travis Bias

The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by recruiting from the Global South

Health Gina Ryder

Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?

First Opinion Jessica Gold

I finally got used to practicing telepsychiatry. Now the DEA wants to change everything

First Opinion Christian Rose, Adaira I. Landry and Kaitlin M. Bowers

Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?

First Opinion Daniel Fass and David Townsend

NRC: be straight about when clinicians need to report errors that lead to radiation exposure

Health Trisha Pasricha

STAT Plus: Many doctors spend their days battling insurers. Why do some go to work for ‘the dark side’?

First Opinion MarkAlain Déry

In Turkey, Ukraine, and beyond, the necessity of trauma care

First Opinion James Herbert

5 ways to address the shortage of health care workers