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Burnout real crisis among physicians in training

Stephen Russell, Sanjay Desai and Brian Garibaldi The Baltimore Sun This month, the American Medical Association invested $15 million in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our health system. Among the goals of this grant was to address the crisis of burnout among training physicians by investing in wellness innovations. In many ways, it is an issue as important and consequential as President John F. Kennedy’s moonshot program that became fully realized 50 years ago this summer. In September 1962, when Kennedy stood beneath the brow-swabbing heat of ...

Billionaires aren’t the problem

Bernie Sanders can’t decide what socialism is. At times he frames it as nothing more than New Deal-style capitalism, not so different from the Scandinavian economies of Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Other times he defines it in the language of class struggle, vowing to smash “the oligarchy” and “restore power to the many, not the few.” In a speech this month at George Washington University, Sanders attempted to merge the two definitions: He aimed to finish the New Deal, he said, precisely because a failure to do so would threaten an oligarchic takeover of the U.S. He ...

He once damaged ROTC offices

On Friday, I will attend the solemn ceremony at Northwestern University in which Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps students will take the oath to become members of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. As both a faculty member and graduate of Northwestern, I try to attend each year as these brilliant young people commit themselves to a life fraught with potential danger in service to our country. They have earned and deserve our solidarity and support. Almost 50 years ago, as a Northwestern undergraduate, I was arrested for damaging the NROTC offices during an anti-Vietnam War ...

Oberlin’s racial hucksterism comes home to roost

As a right-wing alumna of far-left Oberlin College, I have four words for the administration in response to last week’s ground-breaking $11 million jury verdict in the defaming of humble Gibson’s Bakery: You had it coming. I have five more words for Oberlin as arrogant college officials continue their obstinate war on the Gibson family even after the much-deserved courtroom defeat: You still don’t get it. After the college sent out vice president, general counsel and secretary Donica Thomas Varner’s June 7 email to alumni disparaging the verdict and lying about ...

Yes, Elizabeth Warren can win

Elizabeth Warren can do it. Yes, she can. I’ll concede that betting on winners and losers in the Democratic presidential free-for-all is like betting on Chicago weather in June. Only fools and hardcore gamblers would dare. But if I had to gamble, I’d bet my collectible Obama-Biden button that Warren will be among the top two contenders in the Democratic race. What the heck, I’ll gamble big: I’ll stake that button on her being the nominee. I’ve been sensing Warren’s rise for weeks, even before her poll numbers went up and the media air around her brightened. ...

Trump isn’t behind Iran’s belligerence

As President Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf last week, his smarter critics are not questioning Iran’s likely culpability. Instead, they are asking, “What did you expect?” So Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, agreed that evidence of Iran’s responsibility for the attacks is “very strong and compelling.” But he also lamented that Trump had isolated the U.S. from its allies, and how those allies and U.S. intelligence analysts warned “that this kind ...