Spread of health misinformation by health professionals who also hold government positions represents a long-standing problem exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States.

Workers essential to social functioning and safety are paid as if health care organizations would not cease functioning without them.

Tension between realistic goals and unrealistic views about how to achieve them is compounded when patients are eager to revise a prior surgeon’s gender-affirming procedure.

Body mass index cutoffs are routinely used to assess eligibility for gender-affirming surgeries, yet they are not empirically based.

Health care generates a lot of waste that enters landfills, oceans, and incinerators and adversely affects communities close to waste processing and disposal areas.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some US federal courts required jurors’ vaccination against COVID-19, which, according to some, made a juror less representative of a peer.

All health workers should be included in planning personal protective equipment access and infectious disease containment operations.

When global medical supply chains fail, what should physicians do?

COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities of US routine and emergency medicine and critical equipment supply chains that introduced urgent need for change.