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Carolyn Barber

Carolyn Barber, M.D. has been an emergency department physician for 25 years. Author of the book Runaway Medicine: What You Don’t Know May Kill You, she has written extensively about various medical topics for national publications, including Fortune. Barber is co-founder of the California-based homeless work program Wheels of Change.

Worried healthcare worker at operating room in hospital
CommentaryWhy a nurse’s recent homicide conviction could make America’s hospitals even less safe
By Carolyn BarberJune 17, 2022
A veteran receives a COVID vaccine booster shot in Illinois
CommentaryThe threat of long COVID means we can’t pull punches on vaccines, tests, and masks
By Carolyn BarberApril 19, 2022
Giving COVID survivors just one dose of the vaccine could help end the pandemic faster
CommentaryGiving COVID survivors just one dose of the vaccine could help end the pandemic faster
By Carolyn BarberMay 18, 2021
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CommentaryIn the fight against COVID, Brazil’s surge won’t stay in Brazil
By Carolyn BarberApril 23, 2021
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CommentaryWill COVID wipe out standardized college testing?
By Carolyn BarberMarch 2, 2021
Covid Vaccine Incentives Commentary
CommentaryFree food? Free weed? Cash? What would it take for you to get the COVID vaccine?
By Carolyn BarberFebruary 25, 2021
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CommentaryAnatomy of a super station: How San Diego is using a ballpark to vaccinate the masses
By Carolyn BarberJanuary 29, 2021
Will the vaccines work against the South African variant of COVID-19?
CommentaryWill the vaccines work against the South African variant of COVID-19?
By Carolyn BarberJanuary 8, 2021
In the COVID vaccine rollout, our expectations don’t match reality
CommentaryIn the COVID vaccine rollout, our expectations don’t match reality
By Carolyn BarberJanuary 4, 2021
Covid-19-Pregnant Woman
CommentaryNew COVID studies bring some holiday cheer for pregnant women
By Carolyn BarberDecember 23, 2020
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CommentaryWith COVID raging, why are we even still playing college basketball?
By Carolyn BarberDecember 14, 2020
‘Like drowning in slow motion’: Life on the ground at one of America’s hardest-hit COVID-19 hospitals
Commentary‘Like drowning in slow motion’: Life on the ground at one of America’s hardest-hit COVID-19 hospitals
By Carolyn BarberDecember 1, 2020
a blueprint for president-elect to fix america's health care mess
CommentaryA blueprint for whoever wins the presidential election to fix America’s health care mess
By Carolyn BarberNovember 4, 2020
trump covid motorcade
CommentaryWhy was the leader of the free world given an experimental therapy?
By Carolyn BarberOctober 5, 2020
my cancer might be back. i wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place
CommentaryMy cancer might be back—and I wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place
By Carolyn BarberSeptember 22, 2020
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