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A physician shares how patient choice can open the door to racist comments to doctors. A professor writes that vaccinations will take a hit if the Trump administration topples the ACA. A medical officer and health economist describes how snakebites are on the rise due to climate change. And those are just a few of this week’s First Opinions.

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Prejudice and patient choice: an insidious confluence in medicine | By UCHENNA IKEDIOBI

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Vaccinations will take a hit if the Trump administration topples the Affordable Care Act | By JOHN ALOYSIUS COGAN JR.

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Snakebites are on the rise as snakes migrate with climate change | By WALTER OCHIENG

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Ignoring evidence begot Medicare’s dangerous hospital readmissions penalty | By STEPHEN SOUMERAI AND KIP SULLIVAN

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Diagnostics are essential for universal health coverage to succeed | By MADHUKAR PAI AND CATHARINA BOEHME AND ILONA KICKBUSCH

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Maryland gov signs 1st-in-nation measure to help uninsured By BRIAN WITTE MAY 13, 2019

German ethics council expresses openness to eventual embryo editing By SHARON BEGLEY MAY 13, 2019

By disabling a protein in the brain’s blood vessels, researchers ease age-related deterioration in mice By ANDREW JOSEPH MAY 13, 2019

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New study shared via The Lancet > Prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of infection after operative vaginal delivery (ANODE): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
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‘The most peaceful sleep’: Cancer is nudging me to picture dying in a new way
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Is there a best time of day to see your doctor?
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Is tribalism undermining objectivity about low-carb, high-fat diets?
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Doctors need to regain patients’ trust. Nurses can help them do that
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It’s time to stop murder by counterfeit medicine
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We need more signal and less noise about industry payments to doctors
By GENEVIEVE P. KANTER

Cancer patients should be treated by their doctors, not pharmacy benefit managers
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How Insys undermined an FDA effort to protect the public from dangerous opioids
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