Emily Silverman, MD

Healthcare workers are inherently altruistic and self-sacrificing, and business exploits these traits by pushing clinicians to the edge of exhaustion.

Telling piece of research, which shows that primary care doctors are expected to do 27 hours of work in 8 hours.

Traditionally, physicians have been allergic to unions -- but as the corporate consolidation of healthcare continues, and the profession of medicine continues to be degraded from one of healing to one of ticking checkboxes and rushing through 15 minute visits, unions offer physicians option to seize back some power and control of the medical... See more

The "Uncanny Valley" of healthcare. When doctors ALMOST seem to care...

"I was placed for adoption by my teenage birth parents during a time when closed adoptions were still commonplace. Each year on my adoption day, my adoptive mother would tell me the story of how I came into their lives. The story grew in detail as I aged and was interrupted by more questions. I learned that I was briefly in foster care during a

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