Alan Schwartz

Aug 29, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Alan Schwartz |Lisa I. Iezzoni |Kate Higgins

Service Animals To the Editor Dr Iezzoni and Ms Higgins’ recent JAMA Insights article1 reviews the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rules for patients, visitors, and individuals bringing service animals into health care settings. Expanding the audience to include clinicians, whose educational deficit about the ADA rules is striking, is an important first step.

Jul 18, 2023 | afr.com | Alan Schwartz

There are three main arguments against the development of nuclear power in Australia: it is too expensive relative to solar, wind and battery power; it is unsafe; and is not renewable. The last is irrelevant – uranium may not be renewable, but it’s effectively inexhaustible. That leaves safety and economics. Like many Australians, my visceral reaction to nuclear is that it is unsafe. Why risk a repeat of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima, and what will we do with nuclear waste?

Jun 8, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Alan Schwartz

In a timely and important study, Gaffney et al1 synthesize data to estimate public health outcomes associated with 3 major legal decisions wrought by the US Supreme Court in 2022.

Apr 6, 2023 | meridian.allenpress.com | Michael Farrell |Jack Drescher |Alan Schwartz |Flavio Casoy

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine Harvard University Press, 2021 Applying the study of history to medicine can often be uncomfortable, so I had some trepidation as I picked up Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs. The title certainly grabbed my attention; did these events really transform medicine? After reading this provocative book, it is hard to argue otherwise.