One of the many doors money and power often open gives access to opioids where they would otherwise be withheld without strict oversight and management. Elvis Presley provides perhaps the most famous example of unmanaged access to drugs.

The first women’s movement in the mid-nineteenth century endorsed anesthesia during childbirth and some of the very patterns of obstetric practice that became anathema to the natural childbirth movement a century later.

The biomedical definition of pain is inadequate to encompass the experiences of patients living with chronic pain.

Evidence-based techniques for responding to patients’ pain expressions and experiences during such procedures are known, even in the absence of a standard of care.

Office-based gynecologic procedures are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures.

Los procedimientos ginecológicos en el consultorio (OBGP) se reembolsan a tarifas más bajas que los procedimientos similares de urología y dermatología en el consultorio.

Clinicians’ racial biases undermine the quality of Black persons’ health care experiences and pave a reliable path to health care-induced harm.